Show DISTRESS JS IS SEVERE But Japan is Rallying From the Famine Thanks to Roosevelt's Plea April 7 i.-A i. A careful cardul examination examina tine tion of ur conditions III In the clip fuming ills- ills makes malics It clear that while th the distress II la is severe tiC there ha has been considerable considerable con con- exu exaggeration In ht sonic some of oC the tho thoI accounts Practically PI no dea deaths can enn I bo be directly traced to starvation atlon In addition to the thc great shortage c In ii the crop which In III some ome places was R only 2 per C cent o of the lime c a average a-a a 1 th the winter win will tel tee was teas exceptionally revere j and this resulted In lit a considerable mortality among aged persons The death rate rat In the these there c districts however CI was not abnormally high though It probably would have hav been far tar greater hall hail It not mot been ben for fOI the thc general sub tuns so n promptly sent especially from th the United Limited States Slate lato Koo InO e t. Appeal li s President ells ell's appeal ul is It re resulting rc- rc In generous responses It hac ha been published throughout hout the coun tl try 11 The population of oC has hns Invited In Invited In- In Wilson 11 of or the thc American legation Ic atlon here and Mrs II Wilson Vilson to In visit Sendal so u that lint the thc people may return their thell thanks for 01 tho the relief given b by the people of or the thc United States The s In the famine districts will rill last until October but the th acute neute stage e will bo ho over o by hy June whet when rather r crops will trill b bs be hal harvested The Ill Ille severity e I It of ur tit the UI iI which the people have lm passed will ill hal hardly l b be rea realized b by those accustomed to In a I higher standard of if comfort Eight feet of s snow now or co it cJ wide witie tracts o of country where helpless people and anti their hungry hun children cow cowered In hm hovels ho The They have ha shown a wonderful spirit of oC independence and amid self They Thy would nc never stoop to beg so u that in numerous Instances In the heads healt of oC th the villages reduced toe price of food that might have hu been given gratuitously to a third d Its Us usual cost In order that the recipients In paying th th price might preserve their self I |