CHINESE FAMINE
APPALLING CONDITIONS
AN INVESTIGATOR’S REPORT
(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
(Received this day at 10.30. a.in.) SHANGHAI, February 22.
A 'foreign investigator of the Famine Relief Commission at Shensi reports appalling conditions along the Yellow River. Around Sianfu hundreds of villages are lacking a pound of grain. The countryside is littered with skeletons of dead and dying. Not a single animal is left. All have been eaten and thousands are subsisting on horrible porridge made of powdered grass,
There are many instances of caimabalisin. In one village a hundred families suicided.
In the village of Sanyun, 70,(XX) arc completely destitute and hundreds of dead in the streets are left unburied. Several thousand famished natives, maddened by hunger, attacked the outskirts of Sianlu and were driven off b.v military with great slaughter. The district is over-ridden with a disease, causing blindness. The authorities arc unable to cope with the position.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1929, Page 5
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152CHINESE FAMINE Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1929, Page 5
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