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Show TWO MILLIONS STARVING. Heartrending; Conditions Caused by the Recent Re-cent Floods in China. Washington, March 20. Citizens of the United States residing in Che Fee, China, have made an earnest appeal, through consul Fowler at Che Foo, to the charitable in America and elsewhere else-where on behalf of the sufferers from the appalling Yellow river floods of this year. These floods have been described by the natives as ''China's sorrow,' and the petitioners state that never before be-fore was the distress so great and heartrending as now. The most conservative con-servative estimates place the number of starving at two million, and time and the increasing cold weather will undoubtedly augment the distress. The petitioners say that they are daily, almost al-most hourly, in receipt of reports from their countrymen in the interior depicting depict-ing the condition of the famine refugees; refu-gees; hundreds of the villager are submerged, sub-merged, cities surrounded by water; homes, furniture, clothing in fact, everything is under water or destroyed; the natives themselves are living in straw huts; many have absolutely no shelter from the winter's cold and snow; subsisting on bark, willow twigs, roots, etc. The summer's crops have been a failure, the seed for next spring's sowing is gone, and there is nothing for the starving millions to hope for in the future. |