| Show FI N NT MILLIONS Most Horrifying Condition in ir History of Brought to Light THOUSANDS PERISH DAILY Smallpox and n nel Typhoid T huhl Fever JO Add dl to Terror TItI Huge C Area rca h by Failure of Crops CIOS 1 New York Feb Fb Unless immediate imme Imme- hate diate succor be sent to lo the time Chinese famine Carnine sufferers In the district north of the Yang Tso river the liv lives hives s of or I starving Chinese farmers r will ho bo snuffed out within a few fe weeks A communication to this effect was received by E. E R. R Johnston of or the time Christian Herald today from a prominent prom civic lc society In iii China which has the thc famine been 1 soliciting old aid for sufferers frOnt from r m the lie nation of or the 0 world 11 tl Immediate J Mep will bo itO taken by charitable Institutions In of or this timi city t to south send relief to the sufferers I Famine i is Terrible The Time famine in iii north China Chinn Is the of the most roost terrible in the history world said Mi Mt h Johnston Not Nol la compare corn com even en tho famines of In India can l pare aro with it Jt It covers an aim area uS f miles with witha more mon than a 0 population of or It Is in inevitable Irm fn- evitable that this timis whole population will ivill be wiped out unless relief relict ho bo sent at once Last La t October an and November it rained In this district for Cor forty days s 's without ces cessation Every crop was ut utterly utterly ut- ut terl terly ruined The Tite whole country countr was covered co with water antI and as there thero were WIO no crops crOIS there vas no imo seed for rOI a new nev planting In December of or ortho tho the inhabitants were desti tote luie and amid thousands had hod died February February ary an 1 the whole holl population was starving stars stars' ing and anti the suffering was terrible Men Ien stripped trees of their thell bark for Cor or food Women omen threw thou their children Into inlo the rivers rather than sue set them lIe die o of starvation Suicides were counted u by the tue thousand Mothers Sell Children Mothers sold their thelt boys bos and ll girls for a dollar apiece used the money thus obtained to tu provide the children with whim food anti and then thon killed themselves Older children were wele sold into slavery and anti worse so that time tho on money the timey brought might feed their little brothers broth bloth ers lS l'S nn and sisters sifters To make muk matters worse smallpox and anti typhoid t phol C fever ever CI broke out in the time died of or orI famine fanline camps i an and thousands thO I these the diseases es Dr Dl Louis P. P Klopsch I of oC the time Chris Chrls- Christian Han tian Herald has already sent to the sufferers and has imas promised promise to send a month for 01 oi the th next four fOUl our months month l. l One dollar front from every e American will save sa one ur life In China for a U wc week I arc In Jim tho the famine Cum fam ant ant- ine me camps cumps now |
