"Hengshui" meaning in English

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          "text": "The dust-storms have been not merely unintermittent, but of a frightful character, even for North China. Within the past two or three weeks they have taken the form of violent winds, each of which at sea would almost make a young typhoon. In the Hengshui district we hear that the roof of a theatrical pavilion was blown for miles, and that two children were blown away, one killed, and the other never heard of.",
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          "text": "The New China agency reported that numerous building and houses collapsed but that the number of casualties was less than on 8 March, when people had been caught in their sleep. The worst damage was done at Hsing-t’ai, Heng-shui and Shih-chia-chuang [1]; numerous aftershocks (Nos. 186-90) were felt in the same region up to 29 March.]",
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          "ref": "1981 April 12, L. Chen, “Disastrous acts of dismounting”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 14, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3",
          "text": "The People's Daily on March 3 demanded that \"hsia ma\" items be attended to with proper rehabilitation efforts. \"Through maximum utilization, dead things should be brought back alive,\" the editorial on page 1 urged.\nTwo-thirds of page 2 was devoted to a description of how an iron mill at Hengshui, Hopei province, was torn into pieces and sold at giveaway prices.",
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