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Show I CHILDREN SOLD FOR 1 1 FEWPODNDSOFGRAIN H ' SHANGHAI, May 2. A correspond- M ent of the Associated Press, who ro- m i turned today from the famine-stricken V I If ' districts of northern China, found con- H i dltions improved as a result of the re- HL lief work, but still very bad. Tho HI " , dally death rate has decreased from HI I v several thousand in the middle of M ' i March to a few hundreds. Many faTms B I are deserted- Children who formerly Hj j sold for 50 cents each ' aro now ex- B 1 , changed for a fow pounds of grain, R "Women are soiling themselves Into Hi Blavery to provide succor for the more HI helpless ones of the families. Tho Yalo H and Princeton missionaries aro doing H splendid work in controlling tho dls- H I tribution of foodstuffs. |