Revolting Stories from Suiyuan: Men Burnt to Force Them to Disclose Their Scanty Stocks of Food Appalling stories of torture in the famine areas, inflicted either to Force the people there to give up their sen ks of food, oF in revenue fur bandit outrages have Just They are created to ind the sccunt ryes to demtot the pitiable conditions, pre-should dined. nae been" a doomed ever vince achsiang tional Famine Relief Commission in Peking.
We have been going out in the evenings to help those that have een without lodging in the intense cold, Every night we have seen dead people on the street. The other night, there was one just dying.
We hurried home to get men to carry him i but a doctor who accompanied us feared the man had swept throng there fallow Fetreat From the outaki Pehing, tu te course his mei seized pratt Hivestock, Heaving the une Hpi farmers without the where-Wwithal tv plough their fields, and those, awh knew the district assert hat famine Wor be an ever-present condition awwtil yeheme has been rea with its nom oont wut it apeasinn to replenish the
sere It nly: maturat that in cattle Mon" bameyahoal Teurish, ie hums being recruited from he numbers of fanning men seek This onion han Ted te the, practice of torture, and this is vividly, described in) the Following letter which has) fust Teen received by De, George Cressey, Professor of Geology in
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