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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...temperature of slightly less than Zero Fahrenheit in the famine areas of Shantung, Shansi and other North China provinces last week killed some 15,000 starveling humans. The ears of the world are deaf to this particular need for charity because it has persisted for so long (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928 et seq.). Even the Red Cross has ceased to give aid. Now and then it should be remembered that roughly 12,000,000 Chinese stomachs are suffering the gnawing pains of slow starvation. Use less to repeat that thousands of parents are eating their children when they can catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Distressing Notes | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

...Like a rabbit in the outstretched arms of a magician, Grand Admiral Yang Shu-chuang, Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Navy, vanished in broad daylight last week at Foochow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Distressing Notes | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

...Chinese Government's brusque decree abolishing "extraterritoriality"* (TIME, Jan. 6) drew such stiff protests from Washington, London and Japan that its execution had to be definitely stayed (TIME, Jan. 13). Last week the great powers were tongue-lashed by the Chinese official who is a sort of Chief Justice and Attorney General rolled into one, Dr. Hu Hanmin, president of the legislative Yuan or council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Distressing Notes | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

Close-mouthed Swiss Stock Exchange officials reported briefly last week on their crash, which followed Wall Street's. They put the total shrinkage in Swiss security values at $80,250,200, "the chief losers being Swiss trusts connected directly with New York and Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: Swiss Loss, U. S. Investment | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

With never a smile, Big Black President Louis Borno of Haiti last week handed correspondents a copy of a cablegram from Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Honest Borno | 1/20/1930 | See Source »