The terrible conditions at Siants sre described in a graphic despatch from Reater's correspondent in the Shensi war zone, dated November
siege and fierce fighting was in pro= eres, A Chinese'refugee who managed to get through the lines, though robbed of his money and clothes by soldiers, told the correspondent that the city streets were strewn with, dead poor, who had died long ago and remained where they fell. The soldiers were robbing the people of all their supplies and food could not be purchased, though human flesh had been offered for sale.
Many people were subsisting on bbeancakes, normally used as cattis food or as fertilizer. All dogs had vanished from the streets. The troops were living on horse flesh, millet and flour, including husks.
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