CHINESE FAMINE.
• I, ■ i ■■ » IMPROVED CONDITIONS
BUT THOUSANDS STILL IN WANT
A newspaper correspondent who has returned to Shanghai from the famine district tells of the improved conditions now existing as a result of the relief work.
The deaths, which during March were counted by the thousands daily, now numbered only a few hundred. The Chinese gentry are exhibitng a new spirit, and are forsaking the old theory that famines were necessary to reduce the surplus population. Far from opposing them they are even assisting the missionaries in the relief operations in whicli the latter are engaged. It is estimated that there are 1,500,000 people still unprovided for.
The traffic in. children continues, but those that formerly sold for 2s were now being exchanged for a few pounds of gram.
Many women are selling themselves into slavery to succor their families.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3218, 15 May 1911, Page 7
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141CHINESE FAMINE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3218, 15 May 1911, Page 7
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