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Show THOUSANDS DIE Of ' I FAM1NEJH JAPI Fullj a Million People in North Part Reduced to Extreme Want. , i SENTENCE OF DEATH PASSED UPON PEOPLE One-Third of Population of Uno Province Is Condemned to Die. VICTORIA, B. C, Jan. .T-Tho lamina In north Japan In causing thousands to starve, acrordlng to advices received t0 day by the steamer Empress of Japan Sentenced to Death A Government report says Miyagi, Fukushlmu and Iwate provinces, -with a. population of 2.821.657, are conf roni Ing the worst famine since th' deadly on of elxty years ago. So groat Is tho calamity in Mlyagl, that famine investigators report re-port ! "The xentenco of death has ben pa.w-d on one-third of the people of the province." pro-vince." Misery Indescribable. Already thousands In thes three prn-vlnces prn-vlnces are reduced to snrub roots and bark of trees to sustain life and a million mil-lion people are in extreme condition. The misery arising from the famine l indescribable Committees of forpi7 residents have been formed to arraMu iti matte relit ( The Graham System of Short hanr la taught at the Y. M. C. A. night school Fifty lessons for .',M. Enroll now. |