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Show AWFUL HORRORS OF FAMINC. Starving Chinese Eating Corpses ol Those Who Have Succumbed. Washington To collect nn crron- cous report that has found general circulation with harmful results, (helled (he-lled Cross ha Issue. I Ihu following; slatemenl In regard to Iho Chlnuso famine. "The famine In China la unprecedented unprece-dented In severity and tho period or greatest agon) Is )et In come. Many weeks must ias before thord will bo relief from new crops, nnd millions It da) nru kept allvo only through Iho ' contributions of Ihe American peoplo who hnvu mill their donation lo (hn National lied Cross at Washington nnd to Ihu Christian Herald of Now York These two great organization nro working together for Iho common cuusu, and have furnished over (wo-Ihlrds (wo-Ihlrds of nil relief supplies sent to China Thu largu amount of money , nnd shipment of supplies already A mudo havo only partly relieved thu I situation, while hundred or thou- minda of live havo been saved, bun I dreds of thousands must yet dlo un- I less largo additional sums and ship I ments of food sro Immediately pro- 1 vldod. f "When n peoplo havo boon reduced """ "- u to such' straits that (hoy will dig up " nnd cut their own dNid, Ihn severity und wldn oxtcnt of tho famine can bo rcallted " |