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Show STARVING PEOPLE FALL DOWN AND DIE; i Pitiable Condition of Three Million Chinese In Famine District. Washington, Jan. 22. "They havo no seed to plant and no animals to do their plowing with; and this condition con-dition of affairs has gono on for so long that they hae lost all desire for work; they simply want to Ho down in tho mud and die. Tboro wero people peo-ple walking on eltho rsldo of the roadwa .coming and going. These wero all beggars and starving. A few ears ago tho majority of them had been successful farmers, but now thoy havo absolutely nothing. There was not a day that 1 did not pass two or three bodies of men women and children lying In tho stretch. When tho people got tired and gave up. thhy simply dropped down where they were nnd died; they did not oven ov-en go to the raised tract on tho side, but dropped In the road, where thoy lay unburicd. "I came across the emaciated body of a young boy, 5 or G yenrs old. Ills throat had been cut and. a piece of paper was pinned on him which stated stat-ed that his father and mother had nothing to glvo him to eat; tho child-i child-i en of the village wero standing around and looking at the corpse" These were somo of tho observations observa-tions of C IX Jameson, a Red Cross onglneer, sent to Inspect tho famine-district famine-district lu China and to report on tho ' possibility of food shortage In tho Ilwal valley. The appallng conditions apply to nearly 3,000,000 people, and i unless outsldo relief Is Instantly i forthcoming, It Is declared, untold i thousands of these must dlo beforo , tho scanty new crops nre ripened and gathered |