Famine in Japan.
Parents Selling their Children.
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Per Press Association.) (Received November 15, at 8.46 a.m ) - TOXIO, Nov. 14. There are terrible sufferings in the famine-stricken districts of japan. Some parents are selling their children at the rate of from Is 7d to 4s as servants. Man}-- are mad with hunger. The peasants steal and eat horses, and gather roots to bakeinto.cakes.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8141, 15 November 1905, Page 5
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