MILLION DOOMED.
SHANTUNG'S PLIGHT.
Appalling Conditions Of Life
In China.
MENACE OP STARVATION.
(United Service.)
PEKING, April 20.
A girl of six was sold as a housebold drudge for the Chinese equivalent of half-a-crown by her mother, who had drowned her two babies rather than see them slowly starve to death.
The grandmother, who bad watched her son and grandson die, then hanged herself in her own home.
These are Among the pathetic cases revealed by an investigation that is now being made under the auspices of the American Famine Belief Committee in the Province of Shantung. The appalling conditions of life there are driving the people to Manchuria, literally by the million.
A drought and the locusts were primarily responsible for the famine, but the situation was tremendously aggravated by the continuous civil war, the banditry, and the ruthless military oppression which combined to deprive the frugal peasants of their meagre savings.
It is estimated that in one area of 100 square miles 1,000,000 people are doomed to die of starvation. They are beyond the reach of help. Other regions are reported to be in a still worse plight.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 94, 21 April 1928, Page 9
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190MILLION DOOMED. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 94, 21 April 1928, Page 9
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