THOUSANDS DIE DAILY
FAMINE IN CHINA EATING HUMAN FLESH Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. On May 15 the Department of Internal Affairs, on behalf of the Wellington Famine In China Relief Fund Committee, cabled a further sum of £7OO to the International Famine Relief Committee, Shanghai. A cable* has been received as follows: “The Chinese Foreign Famine Relief Committee, Shanghai, acknowledges Wellington’s further contribution of £7OO. Famine conditions are desperate and we appeal for further help.—Tong Shaoyih.” An earlier cable from Shanghai on May 13 acknowledging funds forwarded from Auckland has the following paragraph: “Urgently appeal for further help. The situation is desperate. Thousands are dying daily, and it is impossible to plant crops. Famine sufferers are eating human flesh.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 671, 24 May 1929, Page 11
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