Peking, March -10, The United International Famine Relief Committee records indicate that 1,000,000 famine sufferers have migrated to other provinces and y have died en route. The migration is impelled by starvation which is increasing daily.
The mission of investigation going from Shangchow to Sian passed 1,000 refugees from Shantung and Honan going into Shensi. The refugees are acting on the rumour that plenty of food is stored: n the west and many are perishing in the mountain passes. The migration resembles the famous Yukon gold hunt trail of 1898 and the fleeing people pass over the bodies of the dead Bishop White reports more than 1,000 deaths daily in the 22 hsiens of west Honan. Typhus is spreading in north)Honan and 20 deaths is the daily total. The deaths in the six counties of Shantung to date number 5,100. In Shansi mothers are killing their babies to save them from starvation.
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