Affairs in China.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, Feb. 6. Eastern files contain the following reference to the famine in China:
A severe famine is ravaging the Hsian Plain and Shansi and Shensi provinces. Unless rain falls very soon the condition of these provinces next spring will be intolerable.) Some compare it to the Great Famine, but find in the latter some redeeming features absent in this, one notably the impossibility to-day to raise money by the sale of property or otherwise. It is estimated the famine in Shensi alone affects five millions of people.
London, Feb. 2.
The Shanghai correspondent of the Times states that a Belgian syndicate has acquired two-thirds of the shares of concessions for the Canton-Hankow railway. He adds that this acquisition is doubtless owing to Russian influence, and marks the domination of Russia over the entire line.
The famine which prevails in Shensi province is the worst ever recorded. Twothirds of the people are without food. The oxen, horses, and dogs have all been eaten. The weather is bitterly cold. Cannibalism is common, and men are selling women and children to obtain food.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 32, 7 February 1901, Page 4
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