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Show Locust Storm Kavages Honan Province Crops CHUNGKING. A plague of locusts lo-custs has ravaged ten large counties coun-ties of fertile Honan province, the scene of a disastrous famine last year, and has blasted hopes of a bumper autumn harvest. "They left absolutely nothing green, but only a yellow and desolate deso-late land in their wake," said Ernest M. Wampler of Harrisonburg, Va., representative of the American Advisory Ad-visory committee which has been supervising American relief funds distributed in Honan. He said 28 million persons had been dependent on the crops devoured by the locusts. Refugees from the Japanese-occupied portion of Honan say the Japanese Japa-nese have failed completely in famine-relief work, refusing to ship in foqd and letting thousands die from hunger. Wampler said his committee since February had spent 14 million Chinese Chi-nese dollars on famine-refugee relief, re-lief, but this was a mere "drop in the bucket" compared with actual needs. O |