Definition of "Hengshui"

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.

1891 May 29, “Western Shantung”, in North-China Herald‎, volume XLVI, number 1243, Shanghai, page 662, column 2

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 ; numerous aftershocks (Nos. 186-90) were felt in the same region up to 29 March.]

, Belgium: Unesco, page 26‎

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.Two-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.

1981 April 12, L. Chen, “Disastrous acts of dismounting”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XXII, number 14, Taipei, page 3