Talos of suffering are increasing as mid-winter approaches in Japan with unemployment growing and the entire Empire in the grip of economic depression. lief organizations are described as without adequate funds to care for homeless and hungry adults and Ichildren. "Donations are being solicited daily by the Salvation Army land other organizations, One story which attracted wide {attention in the newspapers was that of a mother who sold her hair for 10 sen with which to purchase rice for her children. She went on an errand while the rice was boiling and was amazed to find her pot missing when she returned. Police trested a neighbour, mother of six children, who had taken the rice to xed her own brood.
The Salvation Army has equipped 'a number of river boats as "floating hotels" to care.for homeless labourors, many of whom were sleeping in the open in parks, Suffering also is. acute among hundreds of refugees in the Izu Peninsula and Hakone earthquake dlistriets, which were devastated by "quakes and tres Into in November. Many families. living in' rough were erected to replace their burned
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