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Show Children Form Largest Number in Shock-: Shock-: ino List of Fatalities; Residents Sell Beds to Get Money; Many Eat Bark, Grass and Roots. Reports from the famine-stricken district of China tell an almost unbelievable story of suffering. The list of fatalities is shockingly large and is growing each hour. Children, particularly, are dying in large numbers. I Residents are selling doors, beds, cupboards and .other similar articles for almoslNnothing to secure' a pittance with which to buy provisions where provisions are obtainable. obtain-able. Many others are eating grass, and roots and barks of jtrees in their mad, uneven -fight against death from starvation. star-vation. :. 1 . soutk hoping to find relief are return in? empty handed. There are processions of people with wheelbarrows, transporting their doors, tables, beds and cupboards to market to be sold for almost nothing. Hundreds of men and- women are seen In the. fields, scratching out roots and scanty blades of . grass. Hundreds of trees have been stripped of their bark from the roots to the tips of the highest branches for use as food. Tha majority of the population are living on wild roots,- etc., which Is causing disease..' I SHANGHAI, APRIL 19. THE FOLLOWING FOL-LOWING ARE EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORTS JUST RECEIVED OF THE CONDITIONS IN FOUR OF THE FAMINE CENTERS: YAOWAN FAMINE IS GROWING WORSE. CHILDREN IN GREAT NUMBERS ARE DYING. SUCHIEN ALMOST OUT OF SUPPLIES. SUP-PLIES. NEED LARGE AMOUNTS IMMEDIATELY TO CONTINUE' THE RELIEF BEGUN. SING KIANG PU MANY DYING. MUST DECREASE RELIEF WORK UNLESS LARGER SHIPMENTS OF SUPPLIES ARE RECEIVED. Lokiawetz The whole country is in the deepest distress. Refugees who went |