Selling their Girls.
THE HORRORS OF FAfVHNE. THOUSANDS STARVING. [By Et,eotrjo •» > eleckaph—(lotiyright] [£tlNiTBD Press Association.) (Received 9.45 a.m.) Tokio, December 28. The famine in the Aomofi Hokiknido districts is the worst since iß6y. | The crops did not average one thou|sandth part of normal quantity. Runs on the local banks continue. ! Many thousands are starving, and parents are selling their daughters, of whom batches are arriving daily at Tokio for Yoshiwara or for shipment |abroad. \ j The Government has granted six million yen by way of relief.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 99, 29 December 1913, Page 5
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86Selling their Girls. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 99, 29 December 1913, Page 5
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