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Show w 80,000 PERSONS STARVE TO DEATH IN LEBANON Calamity Is Reported In a Cable Message From Magazine I Writer at Cairo r New York, May 23. Eighty thousand thous-and persons have died of starvation In Lebanon, according to' a cablo measago received today by tho Dally iMIrror, a Syrian newspaper. Tho messago wns signed by S. Sarkls of Cairo, Egypt a magazine writer whoso reliability. Is ouched for by the publishers of the Dally Mirror. It was said tonight In a well In-'formed In-'formed Syrian circles thnt prlvoto advices ad-vices received for a year past were 'such as to make tho message plnusl-bio. plnusl-bio. Food conditions In Syria have been extremely serious as tho whole territory has been cut off from communication com-munication from the rest of tho world '.either by lond or by sea. |