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Show oo j. FD II CHA 0U1T0 OVERFLOW WASHINGTON, Sept. 0. The enormity enor-mity and horror of the famine situa tlon confronting China, cause 1 by the overflow of the Kangtse river, waB officially reported to the state department depart-ment by American Consul General I Grant at Shanghai and relief is under consideration. ' The amount at the disposal of the American Red Cross society for this purpose Is Infinitesimal when compared com-pared with the proportions of the necessity. ne-cessity. It is possible that an appeal for additional funds may bo Issued. The entire territory between Hankow Han-kow and Shanghai, a distance of about six hundred miles, has been overflowed, over-flowed, the consul declares. Cities and towns are under water, many dwellings being entirely submerged. Because of the scarcity of rlco and the destruction of the fields, the cost of living has risen to tho highest point ever attained. C. D. Jameson, an American engN neor, is now in China at' the expense of the American Red Cross society, studying means by which, that country coun-try scientifically may control the raging rag-ing waters of tho streami' oo p. Nearly GO per cent of tho Steel Trust employes .are foreign born, and nearly near-ly two-thirds of these are of tho Slavic race. |