Ogden Daily Standard | 1902-05-27 | Page 1 | Devastating Drouth in Australia Section

devastating DROUTH II 11 sheep dying by the millions and even rabbits starving horses kept alive by setting their tongues london may 27 cabling from sydney N S W the correspondent there of alio daily mail gihei an account of alie terrible drouth from which ai a climax to seven bihy ihy years is now suu ering alie correspondent baag that the los senin stock in an aralia 1899 amount to pound t un employed nien anro drifting into the cism by lh omanda and there the ebalo governments are providing them with relief alie only district which have escaped the drouth are the northern river district of new wales and parts of the diverna district the situation has been aggravated by the federal dudici on fodder kiich prevent its importation in the interior has been paralyzed as tuo water ways are owing to iho expense of fodder the finn ahk li had alic contract ha abandoned the coir arnet for hauling of the idail in queensland the cost of transportation eliav ins from younda to 30 pousila annually are dying by alio ro illions continues the correspondent and even alio nrc et arving hae stripped the kiark from the trees for food A common method of treating exhausted horses ia to lit alie an rinald palate with a knife the horse Is revived ly swallowing his own blood numbers of and swag men have been found dead by the way friden the are doing everything foible to alleviate conditions hut despair of any change in the weather conditions