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Show 20 Million Chinese Are Now Facing Starvation CHUNGKING. More than 20,000,-000 20,000,-000 Chinese are facing starvation as the result of Japanese oppression in enemy-held areas of once thriving Hopei province in North China, Chinese Chi-nese reports said recently. Many areas have become wasteland waste-land through Japanese destruction of irrigation works, forced purchase of crops at low prices and the intensified in-tensified conscription of the Chinese population for labor service. j |