THE FAMINE IN PERSIA.
The following is the translation of a letter from a. Persian convert to -. Christianity. The Rev. Reuben Jehangirshaw received it on Saturday :— Peace, be,untq e you, my brother ! Our . country is now suffering the direst calamity compared to which the situation of France during the time, or before the time, is a trifle. Our mothers and fothers are eating their children. Our husbands are doing the same with their wives ! Grown up children are killing their younger brothers and sisters, and in some instances their fathers and mothers, for food. Food, food, is all the cry-! r ■&■ | The famine, in the time of Pharoah is eclipsed ! Because we have no Joseph. True, the neighbouring countries have contributed to, us what they, can.!/ But it is . riotenough to feed our millions. .We did the same again and again, when it was our turn to do. God bless those who who will now pity us, and God grant the great
American nation will contribute their mite to relieve us of our great sufferings. Bombay* 10th June, 1871. London, 2Gth July.—The English Consul at Tabria announces lie has reueivpd ami will forward to bis Government most heurtrending details of famine in Persia. Special despatches from Constantinople say that the famine in Persia is causing dreadful havoc. The deaths in the Province of Khorassan average 300 daily, and so great is the distress that the dead bodies are devoured by the survivors, and men, women, and children in some cases are killed to render the supply of food more abundant. The plague has also appeared among the Persians, and the Turkish Government is compelled to draw a sanitary cordon along the border. Paris, 28th July.—The cholera, typhus plague and famine are still raging in Persia, and cannibalism is confirmed. The Governer of Shieraz has placed a guard at the cemetery to prevent the unfortunates from disinterring the dead. The British embassy and telegraphists have fled. Previous accounts are exaggerated.
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Evening Post, Volume VII, Issue 190, 18 September 1871, Page 2
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