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Show China Famine Menaces Lives Of 15 Million WASHINGTON. Feb. 5. The famine situation in China has resrhed such a crlnis that H.KH 000 pet.ple may die link- immediate help it given, according ac-cording to information received today by the nt-ite department. Another fnmine equally severe may I arie next fall unless food is made available to the Chinese farmers who nro physically unahle to undertake the sprint plowing, a statement by the department de-partment said. The htn"sn are doing nil In their power to relieve 1 he sil nation, t he 'statement added, and it is estimated ! that $;,i(M,ono will be obtained for re-' re-' lief by surcharges imposed on the rail-i rail-i wav, tel. Kruphic and postal services. I ltd Cross funds of fl.OLHMioa will help ! K.'i.uiiO pcruis for two hundred days, i it' :,-S staled. |