Show I FORCED CD TO SELL I I Terrible Conditions Arising I From Famine Fame In India Inda I II I t 1 LITTLE G S BRIG BRING ThIRTY CENTS APIECE OE i it ii 4 t i Boys Cannot Be Sold and y 1 Aye e i Abandoned I Ii i I I j Millions Mon of People Starving Stag and ad Aid Ad I Cannot Be Awful i Story Stor Told By P Returned Mission Missionary Missionary ary a Who Says Distress Is I Great Greatest Gret Greatest est et In I Country Cout Districts Mer Merchants chants cht Rid Bid Rd Themselves of Hungry People By Throwing Out Grain Gr Boston April 16 The Rev Rock Rockwell Rockwell well wel Clancy a a missionary at bad who is visiting his brother In Med Medford Medford Medford ford said Bald last night The condition of India India today is some something something thing perfectly awful to contemplate I cannot tell tel anything abut the number numbe dying but when I 1 left Bombay last February there were some people suffering and over were in dire distress and of these were receiving government aid aidI It I is not the cities cie but the country countr places plaes which are stricken and when you know kow that it i is mostly among the agricultural classes and that SO 80 tha per percent percent percent cent of the population of India is made up of tillers of the soil si you may be he heable beable beable able to grasp graap gp in some slight manner maner the extent of the suffering at the present time When Wen the famine set in the people began to sell sl everything they had that they might get a little grain gain food They The took the doors dors from their houses and gold old ld them sold their furniture and utensils and then when they had no rio n longer anything to sell sel they ja sold their children The boys dont sell sel well wel and the traffic is largely in girls girls I saw girls in one town just jut before I r came c me away toeing being eing sold for 30 cents piece apiece They were bought ought up by llo Mo But they wont buy the boys so s when the parents parent can no longer support their children they the abandon them and henceforth they must get on as a best they can c Those castoffs congregate about the doors of the grain gran merchants shops s os and the only way the t proprietors tors can get rid dd of them tem is to throw out h f grain ln n wid id Dhe he children pick pt pi lana and ana pick all day and at night night perhaps 1 are ar re rewarded T y hav hay having hayIng ing collected a single uK |