MORE ABOUT THE FAMINE IN PERSIA

Colonist, Volume XIV, Issue 1451, 22 August 1871, Page 4

MORE ABOUT THE FAMINE IN PERSIA

A correspondent of the Levant Herald, writing from Tabreeze, gives an account of the famine, which goes to confirm the later telegraphic news of the extremities to which the people have been reduced. The writer says : The details which reach us here of the destitution and misery which the drought of last year has caused in the central and southern Provinces of Persia are fearfully heart-rending. That the people aro dying of hunger, even in the streets of the Capital, is a minor phase of this terrible calamity. In Khorasand parents are selling their children as slaves to the Turcomans in order to keep them alive, and in Ispahan, as is said, men have been seized in the act of digging up the corpses to serve as food for their starving families. In Shiraz Lerman and Yezd the wretched sufferers endeavor to support life on the grass and roots which they may find in the neighborhood, and, as might be expected, pestilence follows hard on the footsteps of famine ; between them the half of the kingdom of Persia is being rapidly depopulated.