Manti Messenger | 1926-12-17 | Page 18 | Human Flesh is Eaten by Chinese

Human Flesh is Eaten by Chinese Peking The Peking The populace of the city of capital of province is iG buying and eating human flesh to toward toward toward ward off ocr starvation as the result of being being beins be be- ing ins for months because of factional fighting This information is contained in dispatches received here quoting a Chinese refugee who made his way past the lines and entered the city Th The streets of Sian Sian- I fu Iu are strewn wn with d dead ad The natives have been robbed of all foodstuffs by soldiers Dogs horses millet and even fertilizer are being eaten the refugee reported There were nineteen nineteen nineteen nine nine- teen foreigners in the city at last re re- re- re ports A letter from one of these dated November 19 said starvation was a matter of days unless relief came There have been reports that the siege has been raised following retreat retreat retreat re re- re- re treat of ot the troops of ot General Liu Hau Chen the but this can cannot cannot cannot not be confirmed