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Show CONDITIONS IN CHINA DAILY GROWING WORSE Horror of the Famine Not Half Told, as Fully Five Thousand Persons are Dying Dally. Shanghai, China. Telegrams received re-ceived hero, from twenty points in the famine district, report thnt tho conditions condi-tions nro growing worse. The Chinese government and pcoplo up to dnte havo contributed over four million dollars for famine relief and tho sums received from nil foreign sources total half a million dollars, Including In-cluding tho supplies on their way from America. Thero aro fifty missionaries, with tho higher class of Chinese, engnged In overseeing tho relief distribution. Confuclnnlsts, Catholics and Protestants Protes-tants aro working together. Tho telegraph tele-graph officials aro carrying free all messages to and from tho relief works and tho steunishin comnanlcs are iur, nlshlng free transportation for sup-piles sup-piles of food, etc., for tho sufferers. Twenty thousand of tho famine sufferers suffer-ers aro employed In building dnms nnd canals to prevent n rcoccurrenco of the Hoods. Tho relief committee hero Is promptly sending supplies to tho front, but tho funds are not yet In Its possession. Mensures, ndopted up to date, uro Inadequate. Ten million persons uro suffering from lack of food and racing starvation. Whole families hove been found dead in their houses and corpses nro seen lying by tho roadside. Probably flvo thousands persons nro dying dally from stnrvntlon. A few cases of rioting for food have occurred and cannlbnllsm is beginning to be reported. Parents nro exchang tug their children to bo eaten. A dol lar, tho relief commltteo reports, will save ono life until tho harvest, June 25. and $10,000,000 Is needed. The wholo amount ennnot bo raised in China. Chi-na. Tho situation Is desperate and Amerlcnns nre urged to give $3,000,000 In tho next threo weeks, not Tor Chrif tlnn, but rar humnnltnrlnn work. |