Monsoon floods devastate Chinese villages and food resources 1947 (1947)

GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Village people of China desperately try to repair dykes, find food, shelter and save flooded crops following severe flooding brought on during the monsoon season Full Description: Gaumont British Ident SLATE INFORMATION: China Fights Flood Menace To Her Crops CHINA: EXT CHINA. rain swollen rivers around Canton burst their banks and flood rice-fields. Shots of peasants groping under water for remnants of grain crop. Refugees feeding at communal feeding centres FLOODS & STORMS Rain swollen rivers around Canton floods their banks. Work goes on to repair dykes. huge areas under water RICE Rice fields flooded around Canton - peasants groping for grains of rice under the water Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries; Weather; Disasters and Accidents floodwaters, refugees, homeless, devastation, Background: Village people