FAMINE IN INDIA.
'RELIEF WORK. ; BY TELEGBArn—PRESS 'ASSOCIATION— COPYKIOnI • Calcutta; March 18: ■ Lofd Minto, Vicqr.QS.of. India, states that the loss-of fifteen millions 'sterling'-worth, of crops in the United Provinces. pf.lndia affects fifty million people. -Relief'committees are being formed. ' - '•
. On January 20 tho l *'to'tar number of persons in receipt, of Stato^relief 1 ' lu-rtlie'-'whole'-'of. India was 313,998. On. March li-it-bad-risen: to 1,500,000. A despatch 1 of .January 20, referring to tho rainfalls - betweeh January '10 arid 12, says'"Notwithstanding improvment in future outlook,- .existing distress 'is 'b'edoriiihg more acute. Immediate .effect, indeed,' 'of'-tlie rain in - United Provinces'ha'6 been to . lessen 'demand for' labour in the fields, ('owing to cessation of irrigation, and there has been, further large increase; in? numbers on relief','! which are nmv—work6 '137,379, gratuitous relief 101,456." , . . ' r ', ■-I
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 151, 20 March 1908, Page 7
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129FAMINE IN INDIA. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 151, 20 March 1908, Page 7
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