BATTLEFIELD NOTHING TO FAMINE IN KANSU
EARTH’S SURFACE STRIPPED.
THOUSANDS OF WOMEN SOLD INTO SLAVERY.
Uuitod Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SHANGHAI, June 25.
Adding fresh visions of horror to those already supplied by missionaries to emphasise the horrifying spectacles in death-smitten Kansu province, Colonel Constantin states that during tho world war ho participated in terrible battles in Eastern Prussia, where fields were covered with corpses and wounded. Those had not impressed him so much as tho sight of “these exhausted faces, black from starvation, these heartrending, (mploring eyes.” People have stripped the earth’s surface of everything edible, and aro digging for grass roots. Northern slave dealers aro transporting thousands of young women from Kansu, and selling them into shameful pursuits.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6946, 27 June 1929, Page 7
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