HORRORS OF FAMINE.
S'TARTATION IN CHINA. ■&■'■'■ Z PEKIN, Sept. 12." ThSK President has issued a mandate ordering } the .Ministries of Finance, andt the Interibr to, co-operate with the -Civil Gqt*erhor<t 61 Chili, Honan, and Shantung provides, in' establishing rice .and gram stotes^; selling at. low prices, and exempting jafe amd grain from Customs duesy • mYbrder ■; to relieve the .-. , famine situation, which is affecting a region of OOjOOO. Square -fniles and 30,000,000 to 40,000,000, inhabitants. It is conservatively estimated that 200,000.000 dollars' relief will ?Bt^quired,. .and;. the Government is tlnaMe^- to extend this. " Tlie diplomats here are organising an international relief -Committee. A, Chinese eye- witness reports Jnat fathers m many villages are . poisoning their .families m order to save , them froiiM starvation. The horrors are said to be indescribable.— A. and N.Z/C/_V./ V .: - • .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15318, 14 September 1920, Page 5
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