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Show I AMERICAN CORN TO FEED HUNGRY CHINESE DECLINED NEW YORK. Feb 1 Beeauiso of Uio difficulty of shipment and heavy expense ex-pense involved, millions of bushels of American corn offered by middle wrest fanneri to help relieve distress in the famine regions of China can not be ac-repted, ac-repted, the American commit too lor the Chinese fund announced today. Experts In grain and transportation problems informed thfl Committee that corn starling from America for northern north-ern China would heat and spoil m route unless It was kiln dried. This pcocess, it was said, would he hlghl xpensive and evi n under tho most favorable conditions the corn would ost 6 cents a bushel to deliver In China. As the American dollar is now at 3 premium in China, the statement lyjinted out, the American committee representatives in Teking can buy I I tor ulmOM immediate dellvi ry more advantageously. Latest advices from northern Chi na indicate, the committee stated, that titteen million persons are in peril o! starvation. |