Shanghai, June vs.
Reuter's Agency has received the following telegram, dated Changsha, June 27, from the Rev. G. G. for burial. Not seeing the child- Missionary Society, representing arren, of the Wesleyan Methodist ren around the neighbours con- the Famine Relief authorities in cluded they' must have gone out} Hunan: to beg for food.
After waiting Some time for their return the "The scarcity of rice in Hunan friends began a search and to their amounts to a famine in certain surprise found the bodies of the localities. The probability is that the rice still in the Province would children in the cupboard for they sufficient if free circulation had died from suffocation. for bice Be be secured, but it is doubtful The Chinese Committee and forwarded to:— has collected Huayang Ili Chen Huei, Shanghai 15,000 Kuang Ren Tang 13,700 Neon Hsien Li Ping, Shantung - 2,000 Tao Yin Kung Sub, Taituin, Shansi 1,000 Fu Kia Ch'eo Chen Hyei, Poking 1000 Feo Chan, Refuge Home, Chili 300
Total—$33,000
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