THE FAMINE IN PERSIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume IX, Issue 2600, 25 May 1872, Page 2

THE FAMINE IN PERSIA.

Oce readers will remember that up to a short time since our telegrams brougut, month after mouth, the most distressing ac counts of the ftimiue in Persia. Xhe necessity of hunger, above all other necessities, knows no law, and. some of the detaiiea accounts of ths sliilts to which the people in Persia were put, are truly lioi.-o.e. Wlien at the acme of all their miseries we plague broke out, the new horror was a relief, so desperate was the people s When we state that (according to i-" Levant Herald, and other Asiatic P 3 P er -» the dead bodies were dug up 0^ J ( , the cemeteries and eaten, tha •»- •- and mothers killed and ate t -tir children, that men, women, and cmic.e... were picked up daily in the streets dead from hunger, aome idea may be foof the horrors of the Persian famine. L fund has been established and large sum, = - scribed all over the civilised > u "" The not at all commensurate with the du>tie«Jews resident in Persia are also in a • condition, and, so late as January - Moses ilonte.- n-e, Bart, receired a from the Secretary of the Pe.re, anlttehJ mitto at Ispahan, saying 1.700 J" han ; 1,200 starving. Jews Tezd eqtu han—smrving." Iho Jewish CA> a special appeal on behalt ot these nn . people, and. vre believe tWat * been set on foot by the Jews :set er. d tL.o» ; out the worlii for tb - relief of tluir Jrc in Persia.