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IN JOIN AND CHILDREN D1C Horrifying Reports Continue to Come Prom Famine Stricken Districts of Spain. In Many Localities the Suffering is Intense, Many of the Working Class Attempting to Sustain Life by Eating Roots. , Seville, Spain. Heart-rending ro-ports ro-ports continue to reach tho provincial authorities from tho outlying famine-stricken famine-stricken districts. Tho latest roports received nro from Osuna arid Almon-gin, Almon-gin, tho respectlvo mayors ot which notify the authorities that their resources re-sources nrA oxhiiusted nnd that thoy aro unnblu to further assist tho famished fam-ished laborers nnd tho women nnd children, as tho distress is too ncuto. At Aclja tho population has looted tho bakers' stores. Tho mortality among Infants , nnd nged porsons Is attaining terrifying proportions, nnd In many localities tho working pcoplo nro Mlvlng on roots. Tho government has organized public works on n small scale, employing about COO then, but this Is n-moro drop In tho bucket of misery, ns a modernto calculation showa thnt 200,000 aro out of employment. Cardtnnl Sanchn, having oxhnustcd tho avntlnblo charltablo 'funds, Is going go-ing from houso to houso in Sovlllo, begging for '.ontrtbutlons, whllo tho employes of suveral banks nnd com merclnl houses hnvo decided to dovoto a portion of their wnges toward tho relief re-lief ot tho destitute,. Count Romnnones, minister of agriculture, agri-culture, has Just concluded nn exhaustive exhaus-tive personal Inquiry In tho distressed districts, following on tho rellof fund of $800,000 voted by tho government His report creates tho Impression that heroic measures for relief nro essential. essen-tial. Tho count Journoyod from end to end of Andnluslii, and ovorywhoro In tho four provinces comprised thoroln lio wns confronted with plcturos ot desolation. Tho territory most stricken forms n clrclo embracing Sevlllo, Jerez, Cndlz, Malaga and Cordova,, whero natural forces nppoar to Havo corablnod ngalnst tho people's welfare |
