FAMINE IN CHINA.
TEN -MILLION PEOPLE AFFECTED. Press .Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SHANGHAI, February 22. Captain Kirton, representing the Foreign Famine Committee, lias informed the Viceroy of Shanghai that- the present famine is the outcomo of the neglect of public ■works and lack of drainage. Ten million people are'Mrickeri, half of wlioin are doome<l unless energetic measures are adopted.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13836, 25 February 1907, Page 5
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