Thunder Out of China

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• Honan is a fertile province. Before the war, it supported some 30,000,000 people, who farmed the rich loess soil exhaustively and pressed upon it to the Malthusiam limit. The cash crop was spring wheat,which the peasants sowed in late autumn and harvested in mid-May; their secondary crops were millet and corn, which were sown immediately afer the wheat harvest and gathered in by fall. .... There are only two ways to deal with famine, both of them simple, but both requiring major decision and swift execution. One is to move grain into the stricken areas in bulk and as swiftly as possible; the other is to move people out of the stricken areas in bulk and as swiftly as possbie. No great wisdom is required to foresee a famine; if there is no rain, there wil be no crop, and if no crop grows, ... (查看原文)

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• 实际上，中国所有的官员也都知道，当时滇缅公路和滇越铁路，在中国供应问题中只是很微小的因素。一九四一年年底以前，日本的封锁是一个筛，而历史上最大的走私组织就在这筛上钻寻空隙。据估计，光是买卖汽油的走私者，就雇佣着五十万人，他们把汽油从海边的船上偷运入西南边境的山道中，转而卖给中国政府。唯利是图的日军是和中国的投机家合作的。私人投资者把和汽油一样多的布匹、轮胎、药品以及其他紧要物品运售给政府，这并不是单方面的买卖：中国的钨、锡和锑也从同样的道路，运出去给敌人充实兵工厂。中日两方对走私的事情都知道。 (查看原文)

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