Emery County Progress | 1907-01-19 | Page 2 | Famine Sufferers in China

FAMINE SUFFERERS IN CHINA women cooking roots of grass leaves and twigs for food shanghai captain kirton foreign relief commissioner in the famine camp at tsing kiang fu describes the reglee camp as consisting of mat beds arranged in rectangular groups in street formation two miles long and a mile wide in other camps in the vicinity of tsing klang fu of near ty half a million refugees 30 per cent show signs of distress and among 10 percent the suffering is acute the roads are thronged with rice peddlers women tear up the roots of grass toi food and are cooking leaves and twigs