TWO MILLIONS DIE.

Grey River Argus, 4 March 1929, Page 5

TWO MILLIONS DIE.

CHINESE FAMINE.

An Appalling Story.

(Received March 3, at 5 5 p.m.) SHANGHAI, March 2.

Over two million, almost a quarter of the population of Kansu province, have perished as the result of the famine and of war ravages, and also of Moslem massacres in less than cue year, according to the ia-L st reports from the grief stricken areas. The true conditions within, the province are difficult to obtain. The communications are almost s vered. and investigators fear to venture in lest their food supplies should be filched by the populace.

Half dutijd victims who have succeeded in reaching the neighbouring provinces relate tales of appalling suffering. Experts estimate that it will requite eight million pounds worth of grain and seed to save thJ remain ing inhabitants from certain death, apart from immediate food supplies *o prevent the seed from being hten.

The country is stripped absolutely bare of vegetation and trees for hundreds of miles. The starving population have commenced consuming larth, the majority thus dying quickly. Grave fours are held of a plague outbreak. Yet the neighbouring provinces refuse to delete their own meagre stocks by aiding the sufferers.