Show MILLIONS STARVE IN GREAT T EMPIRE I 4 I Awful Suffering in China Told Tok I I by United States Consul MANY PROVINCES AFFECTED TEC t Children S Sold kt at Auction for Cor 32 2 and amI S' S 1 j jI I I IJ by Cra Crazed Parents Becomes IUra Washington Jan 28 Consul Haynes Hay Hay- ties nes at ut 1 China Informed the p i state department today that the fa famine Camillo Ca- Ca a mine mimic HI In the Empire is Js than Ilhas it Il 1 t has been for Cor or forty orty years cars The conditions are ten times time worse than they have havo been during that thai I period period- the r report ort S says s r The e communication communication com corn received from Cram Mr 1 Ha Hayne sa says s 's that there are arc ten million lon people i affected b by the time an and amid that tUllY fully four our million inhibit are really starving I In a vivid picture Consul Cease HaneR tells of the auction held b by parents I when shen their children are arc offered for fOl em sale ale for from rein 12 2 to 4 apiece These pitiful sights are seen been dally daily on ott th the thes s streets in lit the northern provinces and amic andIn I In the province pru of Tho Time famine has imas been accompanied i by brigandage und and robber robbery II Is The cau cause o of the famine Is assigned t to the floods during June Junc and amid July ol of or lust lat year car This was caused by the time action ac 00 ac- ac tRam tion of official in lii charge o of the tho gran and gm-and canal who in or order ordet el to avert avort a lo local al Hood flood turned tho the water vater Into Inlo time the southern south fouth- ern n country flooding It to six Ix feet teet in Iii depth and amid unending suffering S Samong among the poor r |