Word: wuchang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...north. Homeless were 30,000,000 people; 10,000,000 were utterly destitute, with hundreds dying daily. Eventually, it was estimated, the death toll would reach 2,000,000. Pestilence was abroad, was to become worse. Hankow (pop. some 800,000) and its sister cities Hanyang and Wuchang were doomed to destruction: houses were collapsing everywhere, mud walls on which refugees perched were slowly sinking into the floodwaters. The three cities had enough cereals for three weeks. A little meat, no vegetables, no ice. The power plants were in danger...