Show Chinese Reds Expect 40 Million to Starve The Chinese Communists expect at l least ast persons about 10 per cent of the total Chinese population to to die of starvation before the next rice crop This information is carried daily in Chinese newspapers which simply quote It as a statistic according to Dr J. J D. D Van Putten who arrived Friday in Seoul from Peking where he was director of the U. U S. S information s service Van Putten told the United Press that the official reasons for forthe forthe forthe the famine ne which he described as general and not a local thing were acts of God and troops who destroyed I dikes An early drouth and later floods in both the Yangtze and Yellow river valleys were the big cause cause of f the famine Van Putten said |