FAMINE IN CHINA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3624, 10 November 1920, Page 5

FAMINE IN CHINA.

FORTY MILLIONS AFFECTED. .. WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER OF CHILDREN. AWFUL CATASTROPHE THREATENED. Received 10 a.m. PEKIN, Nov. 9. Figures compiled by the Relief Commission show that the total of forty million people are affected by the famine Twenty millions in the Chili province are affected, and fifty per Cent, of these are threatened with starvation. Three million inhabitants of the South Tientsin region are living On roots and baric, and many are dropping their children or selling them for a few coppers. Numerous wells in this area are choked with children’s

■corpses and the of suicides. There is every reason to think that China is faced with an appalling catastrophe of the first magnitude, exceeding the horror of the last flooding the country by the Yellow Eiver, when ten million people lost their lives. The white element is doing all that is possible to alleviate the dis-

tress, but is practically powerless against the supine attitude of the Government and the general Chinese view, which considers that the famine is Heaven's visitation to clear an over-