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Show FEAR MANY ' HAVE DIED ill LABRADOR Food Scarce In Barren Land and Winter Unusually Severe. STDNRT. C. B.. March U That the rigorous winter Just elostng has caused extreme euftarlng aad probably aaany deaths, f n"g the people la tha xaarraa Labrador peninsula who have aeeei eat eg for months or great los flelds from the possibility of securing toad and clothing, la the one fear felt bare and la Newfoundland. Newfound-land. The laat reports, which were received lata last fall, aaid the food euppltee were almoat exhauated and that hundrede of tha natives, mainly fisher folk and their families, were on the verge of atarvatton., Huppllea were lmmedlsl..v aent to relieve tha altuatton then rev xled ae extreme, but montha have par-sl elnoe then and the stricken Labrador people have had no help nor baa word come to the outetoo world aa to how they are fsrihg. Repeated efforta have been made to carry succor to the aiarvlng people. Vea-sels, Vea-sels, laden with euppltee of food and clothing, have failed repeatedly te pierce ice Ooce which choke the strait of Belle In., the narrow atretrn of water which eeparatea labrswlnr from the northern const of Newfoundland. The preaent misfortunes of tha Labrador Labra-dor peopla had thHr b-rlnrt.ng In the failure of laat aeaaon'a flahliis catch. It was the poorest In years. As a mult thra waa no money on hand to buy food and clothing, a DliBtrd whtrh swpt ovr Newfoundland and te.hra1or laat wak te tmltevffd to have caiisd much daunage. Tha tn(iiior of Newfoundland Waa complelly Isolated for aevaral days. Snarcely a tlphon and telegrapb wire balng left standing. A blanket of snow reported In some filaoee aa being from twnty to thirty eat deep, eovared moat of tha colony. |