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Show MILLIONS IN CHINA STARVE Parents Offer Their Children Chil-dren for Sale at From $2 to $4 Each Says Consul in Report WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. Mail reports re-ports from American consular officer! in China which reached the State department de-partment todaj regarding the famine and resulting conditions, farther confirm con-firm the stories of suffering and hardship. hard-ship. Consul Hajnes at Nanking says thst the famine is ten times worse than anything known in that part of the Empire for the past forty years. The Chinese officials, he says, upon information informa-tion given him hy the Viceroy, admit their inability to'cope with the situation- The Oo'vemmcDt is trying to help the starving people to keep their cattle and to this end- is taking their oxen and buffalo in pswn for two taels esch, keeping them thus until next spring, when it will return, them. Consul Haynes declares that whatever aid msy be "extended by the Government in the present crisis will certainly do much to dispel the ill feeling recently aroused by the bovcot, the exclusion act, etc. The report of Mr. Rogers, the Consul General at Shanghai, is accompanied accom-panied by a statement by Dr. Henry M. Woods of the Southern Presbyterian mission at Hwai Ain Fu, who estimates esti-mates that ten millions of people are affected by the famine, 4.000,000 of whom are starving. He savs there are at present more than ."00,AOO refugees at Tsing Kiang Pu huddled in mat sheds and that the pitiful sight is daily witnessed wit-nessed of parents offering their children chil-dren for sal at from $2 to $4 each. Brigandage and robber, he adds, are everywhere rife. |