Show FAMINE BEGINS TO STALK CHINA Without Food Or Shelter in One City Relief ef Sought PEKING Nov By The As- As AssocIated Associated Refu Refugees e 8 from the famine In the Shantung province are flocking Into md and It Is estimated that twenty thousand per per- persons persons sons are begging In the streets They are without shelt shelter r and scantily lad clad despite the wintry weather The Chinese International famine relief commission Is without funds at present but Is hopeful of obtain obtain- obtaining InK ing a small grant from the govern govern- government government ment famine relief bureau The re- re resources resources sources ot of all the Chinese agencIes however are not sufficient to miti- miti mitigate g gate te the suffering and the war lords are arc too absorbed In their conflict to help greatly Hundreds of thousands In the province ot of Honan are likely to share In the suffering this winter not be- be because because cause of any national calamity but because of the tho constant sweep ot of armies across the province ravaging the farmers farmers' stores |