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Show STARVATION Army Transport Bu- ford Reaches China None too Soon Washington, March 20. The United Unit-ed States transport Buford, with supplies sup-plies to the starving people ,in China, which were collected in this country under the auspices of the American National Red Cross and the Seattle Commercial cmb, arrived In Shangnai today, according to a cablegram cable-gram received by the officials of the Americou Red Cross. Tho vessel will proceed Immediately to Nanking and Chlankiang to unload her cargo. Announcement of tho arrival of the transport In Chinese waters reuched Washington almost simultaneously with mall advices to the state department depart-ment from Shanghai and Nanking detailing de-tailing pitiful tales of the Indescribable Indescrib-able suffering of the starving millions. mil-lions. Mr. Bostickf a missionary, -writing from Pochow, says the suffering poor have reached tlib extremes or m.s-ery. m.s-ery. A few months ago, they were living on "wheat rbran. With this exhausted, ex-hausted, they have resorted to cooking leaves of trees and oven simple drv wheat chaff. Barefooted children, all but naked, on freezing cold days, pitlfullv ucreamlng, "I'm hungry. I'm hungry' present a common street scene. Mothers, no longer able to provide ft-otl for their offspring, throw them uway, probably In the frantic hope that compassion will force some one to rescue them. Men, a few months ago, able bodied farmers, have been reduced to wrecks, shivering with ccld and weak from starvation. oo |