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Show DROUGHT CAUSING FAMINE I Australian Stocks and 'f Cr ops Destroyed; Hj Country a Desert. H LONDON. Nov. 19. Australia, especially es-pecially New Souih ales, is suffering the most devastating drought since 'white men have resided there, according accord-ing io a Sydney dispatrb to the Daily Mail Stoek and crops have been destroyed and it Is doubMul If there will be enough seed wheat for next season Hundreds and perhaps thousands of settlers have been ruined. Northwestern Northwest-ern New South Wales Is described as a desert, stripped of everything green ; Paddocks are littered with the skeletons skele-tons of cattle, and even rabbits are dying in vast numbers. |