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Show DEATH RATE DECREASING. Famine Conditions In China Slightly Improved as Result of Relief Measures. Shanghai, China. A correspondent of the Associated Press, who returned Tuesday from the famine stricken districts dis-tricts of northern China found condition condi-tion improved as a result of the relief re-lief work, but still very bad. The dally death rate has decreased from severs! thousand In the middle of March to a few hundreds. Many farms are deserted, only mud walla Indicating that they were once tenanted. Children who formerly were sold for fifty cents each are now exchanged ex-changed for a few pounds of grain. Women aro selling themselves Into slavery to provide succor for the more helpless ones of famines. |