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Show STARVING BRITISHERS DIE RATHER THAN BEG Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON. April 33. A grim docu-ment docu-ment has been issued from the Mocnl government board. It recorded tho deaths in 10J0 in England and Wales of JII persons from .starvation "or accelerated ac-celerated bv privation," and it furnished fur-nished details of each case. Tho saddest thine in connection with these tragedies is disclosed by the following fol-lowing sentence; "Jn eighty-five of the 111 cases no application had boon made for poor relief, or application was only made when deceased -was in a dyinir condition." condi-tion." ' k Most of the poor victims would rathor die than bog, i |