DROUGHT IN CHINA
APPALLING CONDITIONS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) I United Bervioe (Received 30th July, 10.30 a.m.) SHANGHAI, 29th July. Reports from Kansu, where there has been no rain for four years, depict the most appalling conditions. The population of the city of Anting has been | reduced to 2000 from 60,000. Recently a magistrate wishing to punish a person accused of eating the bodies of fellow sufferers, encountered the plea "I have only been eating what, dogs ate.". •■■•• >.t '<-<•' •••■
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 30 July 1929, Page 5
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