FAMINE IN CHINA
CONTRIBUTIONS ACKNOWLEDGED. POSITION DESPERATE. (Per Press Association.—Copyright.) WELLINGTON, This Day. On May 15th, the Department of In ternal Affairs, on behalf of the Wellington Famine-in-China Relief Fund Committee cabled a further sum of £7OO to the International Famine Relief Committee', at Shanghai. A reply to the cable has been 'received as follows: “Chinese Foreign Famine Relief Committee, Shanghai, acknowledges Wellington’s further contribution of £7OO. Famine conditions are desperate, imperative to have further help. Tony Shanoyih.” An earlier cable from Shanghai, of May 13, acknowledging funds forwarded from Auckland has following the paragraph: “Urgently appeal for further help. Situation desperate. Thousands dying daily. Impossible to plant crops and famine sufferers are eating human flesh.”
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Northern Advocate, 24 May 1929, Page 9
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116FAMINE IN CHINA Northern Advocate, 24 May 1929, Page 9
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