DOOMED TO DIE
STARVATION IN CHINA TERRIBLE CONDITIONS PREVAIL. Received April 21. 1.10 a.m. (A. & N.Z.) PEKIN, April 20. A »;-year-old girl sold as a household drudge for the Chinese equivalent of half a crown, a mother who drowned her two babies rather than sec them slowly starve to death, a ninety-year grandomther who watched her son and grandson die and then hanged herself in her own ? nme; these are among the pathetic cases revealed by an investigation now being made under the auspices of the American Famine Relief Committee in thc province of Shantung, whence the appalling conditions of life are driving the people to Manchuria literally by the million.
A drought of locusts is primarily responsible for the famine, but the situation is tremendously aggravated by the contihous civil war, banditry and ruthless military oppression, which combines to deprive the frugal peasants of their meagre savings. It is estimated that in one area of 100 square miles a million people are doomed to die of starvation beyond the reach < f ’ elp. Other regions are reported still worse.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20127, 21 April 1928, Page 8
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