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Show r . " jr ' ' - - VICTORIA, B. C, Hay 25. Heart-rending details of suffering and death as a result of the famine In Kwangsi were given In Hongkong papers received by the eteamer Indravelli, today. Mr. Hess, a missionary at "Wu Chow, who has been Investigating on behalf of the Hongkong charities,, says that owing" to three successive failures of crops, people are starving and dying in hundreds. During March and April It -is computed that 30,000 people were sold, men nS themselv employment In the Straits Settlements, and women and children being sold Into slavery and for brothels on the coast. Story after story of distress was told by the missionary. He told of famished people dying in the act of eating while relief was brought them; of babies reduced re-duced to skeletons being abandoned in numbers by the roadsides, and of moth- ers selling daughters into lives of shame foV a mere bowl of rice. It was shown by the missionary's report that thousands would perish unless speedy relief la given. - ., ' - |