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Show BBBl'' BBj FAMINE HORRORS BBB ARE UNPARALLELED BBBjr 'Three Million Persons Are Starving flflflf ' ( In Two Chlnest Provinces. Hi I Seattle, Wash., April &. Throe, mil- BBBV I lin porsous are starving In nnrthorn flflfll -Anhwel and northeirn Klaugsu, accord- BBB lug to a letter written by .ohu ('. BBB. Kerguson, chairman of tho coutr.il BBB ' 'China famine relief funil oxucutlvo BflflB, -committee, to tho Shanglini Mercury, BflflB undor date or March I. Mr. Fergusun Bflflv nys: BflflB "At least 1,000,001) porsous are Htarv- BflflB lng In IClaugsu. In addition to tills ills- flflK trlct In Klaugsu, there is the largo plain to tho west which oxtonda Into Anhwel province, and In which It la estimated thcro nro 2,000,000 persons starving. Tho horrors of tho present situation havo rarely been paralleled even In this land." Tho afflicted territory is within 150 miles of Shanghai. |
