FAMINE IN SOUDAN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3589, 16 August 1890, Page 2

FAMINE IN SOUDAN.

.. .. Concerning tho Soudan, 01 wiiivu «S by cable, tho London I'iuiis hiS-beet) shown an extract from a lotto giving most aplhng details. The writer wjslisp'"'Vjj|«a •% awful state of misery the counlvy is in, Tho population is absolutely starving, and the people are like living skeletons. Only.Jto very wealthy formerly Lave Btili 6ometfiing lett. Of course tlio, greatest misery is tho widows and children of the meii ; wo'liaVci' killed, 'and wo mußji .have disposed "of'at -leW'SHwetity thousand, and those had considerably over 6ne hundred thousand depeijleiit o'tttlfe so you p lo&j

misery, It does seem hard, .after* killing'tho bread dinners, to leave the innocent women and children to ntter destitution and a painful death, I Imvo two children hero sent me from Tokar. Their mothers, sisters, brothers, and all friends died of starvation. lam going to gjithem weighed when I get to ■ united ages may be fifteen, and lam willing to back tho,". don't weigh forty-fivo pounds between them. Cannibalism has taken place, everything moving has been eaten, Dogs cats, rats, donkeys, snakes, lizards old bones, leather, are eagerly devoured, and the, stronger take by force from the weaker, I have seen a big boy seize a smaller onb and try to strangle him for the#d that was in his mouth, and many other awful sights. A subscription has been started which enables the Belief Committee to. feed about three, thousand of the worst cases,' and to start a mat hospital for the siok. Tins is at Buskin, hi Tokar starvation is worse; between 50 ana 100, ' sometimes over, die doily. Kassala is still worse, whole families being found dead in their houses, At Gallabat and Gedarif the population nearly ceases to exist; at Berber,' Scheudy, and Metemmeh the same,- At Halaib, Mahamed Ghopl, and Aglig -the distress is also intense. I do hope so4tthing will be done. Our Suakiu committee consists of the GovernorGeneral, the ' Consul, • the senior nival officer, the'seiiior army doctor, an Anglo Egyptian colonel, the Greek Vice-Consul, and two native merchants. Thank God you at home don't know half the misery wa eel" T