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Show Human Flesh is Eaten by Chinese Peking The populace of the city of Sianfu-, capital of Shensi province, is buying and eating human fiesh to ward off starvation as the result of being be-ing beseiged for months because of factional fighting. This information is contained in dispatches received here quoting a Chinese refugee who made his way past the beseiger's lines and entered the city. The streets of Sianfu Sian-fu are strewn with dead. The natives have been robbed of all foodstuffs by soldiers. Dogs, horses, millet and even fertilizer are being eaten, the refugee reported. There were nineteen nine-teen foreigners in tha city at last reports. re-ports. A letter from one of these dated November 19 said starvation was a matter of days unless relief came. There have been reports that the siege has been raised following retreat re-treat of the troops of General Liu Chen-Hau, the heLeiger, but this can not be confirmed. |