Show CONDITIONS IN CHINA DAILY GROWING WORSE Horror of the Famine Not Half Told as Fully Five Thousand Persons are Dying Dally Shanghai China Telegrams received re-ceived here from twenty points in tho famine district report that the conditions condi-tions are growing worse Tho ChlnoDo government and people up to date have contributed over four million dollars for famine relief anti the Bums received from all foreign sources total half u million dollars Including In-cluding the supplies on their way from America There aro fifty missionaries with the higher class of Chinese engaged In overseeing the relief distribution Confuclanlsts Catholics and Protestants Protes-tants aro working together The telegraph tele-graph officials are carrying free all messages to and from tho relief works and the steamship companies arc furnishing fur-nishing free transportation for supplies sup-plies of food etc for tho sufferers Twenty thousand of tho famine sufferers suffer-ers are employed In building dams and canals to prevent a reoccurrence of the floods The relief committee hero Is promptly sending supplies to tho front hut the funds are not yet In Its possession Measures adopted up to date are Inadequate Ten million persons are suffering from lack of food and facing starvation Whole families have boon found dead In their houses and corpses aro seen lying by tho roadside Probably five thousands persons aro dying dally from starvation A few cases of rioting for food have occurred and cannibalism Is beginning 1o bo reported Parents are oxchang Ing their children to bo eaten A dol lar the relief committee reports will save ono lIfo until the harvest June 25 and 10000000 Is needed The whole amount cannot bo raised In China Chi-na Tho situation Is desperate and Americans are urged to give 300000 In tho next three weeks not for Chrir tlan but for humanitarian work |