Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-04-28 | Page 2 | China Famine Kills Millions

CHINA FAMINE KILLS MILLIONS CHUNKING Szechwan Province China April 28 UP A A terrible famine fam- fam Ino ine no sweeping Szechwan and north Honan lonan provinces assumed the proportions proportions proportions pro pro- portions of ot a national disaster today today today to to- day with estimates of ot tho number of ot natives dead or facing lacing death ranging from to The city was shaken by a 8 heavy earthquake this morning Damage was slight Chinese vernacular newspapers reported that some soma mad hunger victims were resorting to cannibalism and that other starvIng starving Ing ng parents parent were selling their children children chil- chil dren ren to gain money for tor food The appalling conditions were attrIbuted attributed at- at to repeated floods followed by y unusually dry summers and to successive VB disastrous incursions by Chinese communist soldiers who have hav lave swept the country like a plague lague of loc locusts s In the last two years ears I Soldiers and civilians alike nUke have resorted to violence to obtain food for or themselves and their starving families am lUes