CHINESE FAMINE
TWENTY MILLION .PEOPLE STARVING POSSIBILITY OF SAVING SMALL PERCENTAGE Bjr Tol«jraph-Prei« Aiioclatlon-OoprrlßM New York, November 19. The Tientsin correspondent of the "Chicago Tribune" states that the American and British relief expeditions are conferring iu Peking, and have agreed that it would be unwise to' feed any part of starving China unless tiio food supplies are continued until harvest time. jir. Crane, American Minister to China, 1 declared: "We can barely scratch the surface." Observers declare that if 5 per cent, of the twenty million starving people are saved they will consider it a great accomplishment; but it is not believed that more than 1 per cent, will be saved. Tho crops in the starvation region have failed for two years in. succession, owing to grasshoppers and droughts.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 49, 22 November 1920, Page 5
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131CHINESE FAMINE Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 49, 22 November 1920, Page 5
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