Large Areas of Cotton Crops Affected by Fighting Braving customary Japanese shelling and bombing, a number of Chi nese farmers have returned to their fields in Pootung, harvesting cotton and rice crops which are reported to surpass those of last year in quantity and quality.
'A total of 1,000,000 mow of cotton crop is, according to Chinese reports, affected by the military operations around Shanghai, A major proportion of the products, it is feared, will be completely ruined.
The area affected, it is reported covers Chuansha, Nanwei and Feng-hsien districts in Pootung and Tachang, Kating and Paoshan districts in the lower Yangtze delta, which form the richest cotton growing region in Kiangsu province. Although the crops are ripe now, harvesting has been rendered impossible by the situation.
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