Show HUNDREDS HAVE PERISHED People of Labrador Short of Food and Shut Off From the Help From the Outside World Sydney C. C B. B That B.-That That the rigorous winter just closing has caused extreme extreme ex- ex suffering and probably many deaths among the people in the baren barren bar- bar en ren Labrador peninsula who have been cut off for months by great ice fields from the possibility of securing food and clothing is the one fear felt fel t there here and in Newfoundland Th The last reports which were received re- re late last fall said the food supplies were almost exhausted and that hat hundreds of the natives mainly fisher folk and their families were on the he verge of starvation Supplies were ImmediatelY sent to relieve the shun situa- tion ion then regarded as extreme but months have passed since then and the he stricken Labrador people have had no help nor has word come to the outside world as to how they are far- far ing ng |