FAMINE IN CHINA.
THREE MILLION PEOPLE BEARING STARVATION. ' . DEATHS NUMBER M,E THOUSAND DAILY- , CANNIBALISM BEGINNING TO : BE PRACTISED. Received April 14, 4.40 p.m. PEKIN, April .13. .The famine in China has assumed terrible proportions. : ,Three million people are .nsaring starvation. ,■ The deaths number five thousand daily. Cannibalism is beginning io be , practised, parents exchanging .their children to eat. Upwards of fifteen million .dollars are required for relief purposes. China has contributed four millions, while another half a million Jias Ueen received from foreigners- It will be impossible to raise the rest oflhe required amount in China.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8400, 15 April 1907, Page 5
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96FAMINE IN CHINA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8400, 15 April 1907, Page 5
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