FAMINE RAGING
IN NORTHERN JAPAN. CABINET DECLINES AID. PRESS STARTS CAMPAIGN. (Fluted Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received November 24, 8.55 a.m. TOKIO, Nov. 23. Seven million are famine-stricken in the rural areas in half a dozen of the northern-most prefectures and ax-e facing an unprecedented plight attributable to a succession of rice ci'op failures. Relief agencies are demanding that the Government rehabilitate the destitute primitive farmers to save them from shameful social evils, such as sell ing their daughters. It is estimated that 59,173 girls have been sold in nine months, consigned to Yoshiwara for service in questionable cafes and forced labour in low-wage factoi-ies. The Government professes to be financially unable to assist, yet to day’s Cabinet meeting approved of an unprecedented 2,000,000,000 yen Budget, including enormous military and armament requirements. Newspapers, with headlines “Save the Tonoku Suffers,” have begun, a nation-wide campaign for food and clothing.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 307, 24 November 1934, Page 7
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148FAMINE RAGING Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 307, 24 November 1934, Page 7
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