Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1911-03-10 | Page 2 | Chinese Fight for Food

CHINESE FIGHT FOR FOOD twenty one Peri periods sons tramped tc death while attempting to secure rations dankow china twenty one pop per sons were trampled to death at sha yang province on friday when a horde of starving chinese fought for tho the food which missionaries were attempting ia to distribute the work of relief la Is attended with some borne peril to those who have taken supplies into the famine districts as the natives in many instances are arc mad from deprivations on friday a considerable amount of food stuff was received by the mis sion narles aries who planned a systematic distribution their work was hardly begun when thousands ot of desperate men women and children became crazed when they learned that there was a chance of their hunger bunger being satisfied an uncontrollable riot followed lach each fought tor for himself and the weaker went down and were ruthless ly trampled the fighting continued as long as there appeared to bo be any thing to fight for the missionaries were helpless