Chinese famine of 1907
The Chinese famine of 1907 was a crisis in northern China.
The famine began due to excessive rains, the worst in 40 years, during the growing season of 1906, which led to crop failures across the Anhui, Honan and Kiang-su provinces. These persistent rains flooded over 40,000 square miles of land.
Bill Kte'pi estimated that 10 percent of the population of northern Jiangsu and parts of central China may have died, and put the death toll as possibly being as high as 25 million people, which would make it is the second-worst famine in recorded history. The Argus, a contemporary Australian newspaper, likewise reported on 22 February 1907 that "Ten millions of Chinese" were suffering, and that half of them were doomed to death unless measures would be adopted to save them.
On 26 June 1907, The Argus reported that the crisis was at an end.
