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Show Starvinn Chinese Arc Kali nil (trass F amino Strikes Prot iiirc in Densely leopled Ann. CHENGTU . Tr;ivi-r fr- ::i ran province of ;i f.t:.-.:.'.c s i fcnout that rr.nr.y nu'Ti-rcr.i h.ivc eaten and t;.r bmk f tret t.. keep olive. Cropi have tnri, vtll.ic's have been drsertrd and f nid pr;cr have reached prohibitive levr'i wl;rn i hmI ts available at n!!, occur hr c t' tJn-sc repirts from thu drr"r!y pf-nplrd arra of China The Honan f.imn.c may broirr.c Uic wor.t In China' hi't ry mil" ';:. .idf"iprcad relirf mrnvircs nre taken tak-en to feed and rc!ic;'' iT.;l!;'-fn (-f prr ions, acror lu. to W. V. Alley o f Chu.ee Indu t; n-r.; rr.i'..vc w!io Juki has CJT pl'-itvi a mirvy of th f.T mine nrrm f ir I'n t-d Chm.i It-!irf Mr 'Alley rrj-Tted i i in r 'O.OMf p'Tsnfu nre nlT'-ct'-d ! tl.r f.in.it." Id warned that "rn i 11 v-tl! d-.r" If evacuation vt sl.irv.i t' p-"l,U' n-'t br'ifun at once T.'.i Yffichintt utiivrr' t y t u :i t who b-ft I'rip r a ' (I a s no to reach their jichtwd in C'hnn:tu s.nd tiiry had parsed throuch arr.n tii.it were "like a nightmare." Tliry spent lix day walking tlrut:h famine ravi'.iied districts, "We could net food, but it w as to i rii)ly expensive," one st i nl-ii t said. "One pound of ll'Mir r 1 "1 d "liars '$120 in American niorryt The clirapcst meal, enn';i'-lmi: of l bowl (f noodles and a few p.ece of cabbfiKe, cost .n0 dolhirs $1. Letters received by Americar-missionaries Americar-missionaries fi "m ("hi ne '.r frien1!'s In areas occupied by the .I,ipan";e revealed that Sbantuni.' and Anbuei provinces in ra.ilern ('hina w ie suf ferine from the nio't srvrn- famine In a decade. V |