| Show THE FAMINE IN CHINA I DIro Distress Prevailing In tho the North Central ConraL Provinces o 5 Situation Graphically Portrayed by tf C Chinese OI 0 3 tidal Who Visited tho the Afflicted Appeal to tho the Worlds Charity I t U Special Correspondence New York ork Aug 5 Rarely If It Indeed ever eer has baa there come como to this country countr from Cram rein any famine or plague stricken lund and however hOO r remote an nn appeal for tor aid which has Ms not found ready answer In the generous Opining Opening of or tho tima purse puree pure strings o ot of tho the American people nor will vilI China now In dire distress call In vain all for tor succor Although there line has boen been jeun no l appeal there ID Is al at already aIr toady ready r oly a 0 movement on foot toot here for tor the relief of ot thy th famine stricken n districts district of at the empire where whore hundreds ore ire Irl dying dolly dally for tor want waist of food toot ho desire to old aid In tills thin moveMent ate It asked to send nl their eon con cn to II the thu China Chin famine amino relief fund Mouse ious New York Yurko The Th area by tim the famine Is limi north central provinces of or Chin Chirat th muSt most loat conditions prevailing In hansi These Thes provinces are deeply de IY An utmost almost total failure of ot crops lO S has Han hal depleted the tM sup supply ply lily rUI end nd inn l eased the tho price of foot food so no that hat hundreds have hue already per perished shod of starvation and tIme the lives lIos of ot many thousands are threatened unless relief shall speedily reach rench them The fhe sale Dale lale of or girin and young women Is al at alwn wn ways n it mm 1 horrible feature of famines In China n rud d a u most deplorable aspect of at atthe the present distress dl Is l tho the stories told of at the bailer bu lH of daughters by their Intents who seek to procure food tood to tou tUfU u themselves alive The rho Th press cables from China have hlo given Ieli noose Idea of ot the tho extent and se severity le severity verity of or the ti famine but u a copy COllY of or the llory of oC one umme of the Chinese ChInse relief com corn who made a n tour through h I lime Ihl he of ot which hai ha Ju Jut t been h el received by Chow Tsz Tz hl hi the tho Chinese consul In New York gives given a I pitiful and touching pic pie picure pIctUre tore ure of tr 11 the e distress u and despair dos prevail ii In the over oer which hangs tho npr ailing hunger cloud The diary covers a n 1 period of 20 days day during which h dim the tho commissioner helped to 2 bodies all ni of them vie vic victims lass tims of ul ota aton It tells tel In simple elm lo hut mt graphic terms of what ho lie saw I From rom Consul Chow T translation tion tiomi of ot the thc tic commissioners diary I take some gome extracts which need neither com men meat nor nCr embellishment to constitute a 0 moving appeal for tor sympathy and aid alI Started I it S In tn tho morning Saw aw many dead bodies on tin rood road The fhe local focal authority was supervising their burial In a 0 deserted cafe cIle met u II boy bo of about U 14 1 dying from hunger We Vc W rescued him and fed him with wih bread Lund and water He lie 10 told us that both boU his hl parents ft no sisters died two days dars ago agoA agoA agoA A dreadful scene In the woods today A number numb of hungry fighting J hUh for tor forn fora torI n a I dead b bt UYI and 1111 Women and children were for Jor mercy norey orcy and driving their att ath We Ve gac atay ull Il dlithe the provisions Wt we c carried with ui us 9 Turned nut of ot our bur way to too a big city and tried to buy bU norm more noro provisions but could slot riot gut got K t any Had to stop there and walt wait att for tor our provision wagon Haw CS ll 6 dead bodies and hired IO olos to bury them Arrived Distributed food fod to the starving and amid medicines to the sick AVe We had not drunk n a drop of lt wa wn water vator tor ter but hut did not tnt feel thirsty Could noi no 1 nil ni u zt I bite of broad bread yet yot not feet feel hungry Hurled tl tP 9 dead bodies bridge Arrived at food mind and medicine A t man hero her hern vas n as telling selling his Ills boy for tor to SJ SI Asked Askel him why h and ho ha answered with wih Ith tears ar that his bile wife Was vas starving at nt home hom ana ona there thare was no room In the tho hospital ho for or her He 1 tried tt et to s Irl ll their boy and save his hla wife The Tho boy bo was lal crying We IV the tho man M n 1 Hurled seven bodies Arrived at n Jurl temple tempi Distributed food tont Met Me a n southern man nian with wih four gum Aim a man mann with wih f slim 1 girls gIrl and a man with four tour girls girl ail as of or whom w WHO were ro bought In the tho al at o a very heap price Arrived West Welt temple templo Die Dis Distributed food About bout 5 a m met m t a I band of at men buyers of ot girls mutIng fighting ten tel soldiers Ope Ono of the latter was wal killed and two to wounded The Tho he ruffians with wih their goods In wagons anti and andon antia on n a though they thoy lost ten of their comrades Hurled Buried six dead bodies And thus the distressing tale contin continues I ues Ut tS presenting lIUS In detail tho the record of ot conditions which must appeal strongly to the charities of tIme the civilized world The Tho Chinese government is doing doln something perhaps all alit It can to mitt miti mitigate gate Rate the Ue distress of the famine but with wih tilt the Ivy heavy burden tho ancient em cm empire pire la Is carrying as the th result of time the an 11 antt tt uprising and antl the consequent foreign invasion It Is evident that help hel must come from fromn the th outside If t the th raY rave ravages ages of ot latest affliction are oro to tobo tobe toI I be bo staid |
