Show DIEM UP AND EATING THE DEAD I i I I Horrible Story From Famine I District in China Greatest Agony to Come Washington April 6 To correct an er rope that has h ral cir clr dilation with harmful results the Red RedCross RedCross RedCross Cross today Issued the following state statement statement ment In regard to the Chinese famine amine The famine in China is unprecedented in severity and the period of greatest agony is yet to come Many Ian weeks must pass before there will be relief relict from new crops and millions today toda are kept alive i through the contributions of the Amen Ameri I Ican can people veople who have sent their dona donations donations donations to the th National Red Cross at Wash Washington WashIngton ash ashIngton ington and to the Christian Herald of New York These two great organizations organizations are working together for the com corn common common cornmon mon cause and have furnished over two thirds of ot all relief supplies S sent to China Chins I The large amount of money and ship shipments I ments meats of supplies already mud made have only partly relieved the situation while hun hundreds hundreds hundreds of thousands of lives lIos have hae been I saved hundreds of thousands must yet i die unless large lare additional sums and shipments of food Coo are arc immediately pro provided I I vided I The following fono ing cablegram received by bythe b bythe the editor of the Christian Herald from the editor of ot the North orth China News Ne s ter terrible as it may ma seem speaks only the truth Shanghai April 6 Klopsch New NewYork NewYork NewYork i York Approaching period of severest i pinch Authenticated Instances of I corpses exhumed cannibalism Foreign relief working effectively maintaining whole districts until harvest hanest When hen a people have been heen reduced to such straits that they die will dig up and anti eat cat their own dead the severity and wide extent of the famine can n be realized eo I |