Show CHILDREN CHILD REIt IN HEAT NUMBERS reports report s received from the famine districts of china show need of immediate relief shanghai april 19 the following are extracts from the reports just received of the foreigner foreign em in four of the famine centers theo children in great numbers are dying almost out of supplies need large amounts immediately to continue the relief commenced sing klang kiang pu many dying must decrease relief work unless larger shipments of supplies arc are received the whole country is in the deepest distress refugees who went south hoping to find relief arc are returning empty handed there are of people with wheelbarrows transporting their doors tables beds and cupboards to market to be bb sold for almost nothing hundreds of men nien and women are seen in the fields scratching st out roots and scant scanty blades of grass hundreds of treed have been stripped of their barks from the roots to the tips of the highest branches for ouse as food the majority of the population are living on wild roots etc which is causing disease large co contribution made washington april 19 A contribution of was received today from the khe christian herald of new york by the american N national at ional red rod cross to be applied to the relief of the famine sufferers in china the amount together with received by the red cross croas from contributors throughout the country was cabled today to china this remittance in makes ales in money that tha t has boon been forwarded from this country tor for chinese famine relief A cablegram dated april from rev T F r mcrea treasurer of the missionary relief committee states that the ching klang committee had over famine sufferers enrolled all of whom the committee feels fools ab able le to sustain successfully until the harvest time and awl that it was adding thousands to the list dally daily being boing governed by the measure of relief in hand and in sight the forwarded today by the Christlo ax herald will be distributed to the shanghai central fam ine relief committee and to the chin klang kiang missionary committee wath the understanding that of the latter sum is to be used for the baby relict relief |