CHINA,

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 1352, 15 June 1907, Page 5

CHINA,

STORIES OF THE IJAMINIJ. United Press Association; — By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. ■ *• PEKING, June 14. • The famine-stricken Chinese in many localities are eating human flesh. Some rice is being distributed to the townspeople, whilst those in the country are being left to starve. . Chinese robber bands in Upper Tonking have been driven to kill several of their captives when foodless. Many of the women and children liberated narrate horrible scenes of butchery among the cannibals.