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Show oo SERIOUS FAMINE THREATENS SIAM Seattle. Oct 13. J. R. Ttedflold, a chemist who has been In tho employ of tho Siamese government more than five years and who arrived f,rom the Orient last night on tho steamship Inaba Maru. on route to his former home In New Jersey, said that a serious seri-ous famine threatens Slam. "During tho last few years thero has boou a constant shortage in tho rice crop," said Mr. "Redllold and this year the heavy rains and resultant result-ant floods havo caused crop failures and thero will bo serious food shortages short-ages this winter In anticipation ot the famine, bands of natives are roaming roam-ing the country and many robberies and murders have been committed " Mr. Rodfield has been employed In tho government laboratory, superintending superin-tending the manufacture of vacclno points. During tho last year nearly half a million natives havo boon vaccinated, vac-cinated, ho said j |