The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-20
STARVING CHINA
APPEALS FOR help
Three Million People Affected by
One Of Worlds Most Ter
riblc Calamities.
PARENTS SELL CHILDREN
Natives Without Clothing Brave
Wind and Snow Of Severe
Winter.
PARENTS SELL CHILDREN
Urgent Call Made
For Relief Funds

\ onc dollar saves human life In |
the famine dintrtct OF China The
| 1mcs-Dispntch VIII receive contri-
buttons, acknowledge them and for
ward them by cnhlc.
Graphic first hand descriptions Of tho
horrible famine conditions in China
! continue to reach Richmond. letter
Just received was written by Rev
Chaflcs a. Leonard from Laichowf,l
on January -. TO DR.. II. j. Willing.
nam, Of the Baptist Foreign Mission
board. Mr.. Leonard says:
Tor month or more refugees have
neon coming by here from the Anhwci
Provlncc. in Central China. where tho
famine is raging. All Of them arc
poor, and come to the gates OF the mis-.
| sionaries' homes and beg for food
clothing and money. This afternoon
there were twenty-five Of them at the
sate when Dr. CASTOR and returned
from Il walk. All are Very poor. and
many scantily. clad. though the weather
, , oeen severe. Women have their
babies bound 10 their waists. Inside
'helr clothing, that tho little ones may
not freeze They are making their
way to where employment of some kind
may be had. Last Sunday morninp
consisting Of father mother and three
children The father was pushing a
"ncciparrow. upon which was some
clothing and mats under which 10
sleep at nights, and In 1t all was tucked
away small child The poor man was
80 weak that he could not push tho
barrow up small hill in the road
put some Of MY strength to the bar
row and helped him along, and tho ia
Vor was greatly appreciated
The famine is about 500 miles 10
INC southwest Of us There arc 5000
wy people affected. with thousands
starving at the present time. The
crops tailed the past season Drinci,
pally on account Of foods and the
people are absolutely without food
The winter has not more than half
passed. and get they arc already eating
INC bark OF trees. and those who can
get them are eating potato leaves and
vines. or course. many are dying
every hour, and yet the worst has not
yet come. as after a While there viii
be nothing at all to sustain life exccpt
what the missionaries and Chinese oiii-
Gals will be able to get to them"
Popnince Dcspnirs.
MI. Leonard also quotes as follows
from letter Just received BY him
crn baptist Convention missionary. ana
North Carolinian, who is in the FAM
inc district:
Truly one must see ii ever to have
a true conception OF the horrors of a
famine. / thought some weeks ago
That had seen pitiful things. but as
the days drag along there are many
things to see which appeal to the very
depths OF ones pity ana sympathy.
When see men who know are hard
faithful workers, Idle now and with
starvation staring them in the faces
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and despair already
written there, it is far more than !,
man wants to see
There is some badly needed work on
some of the roads and bridges near
mere, and proposed to attend to some
OF mat with part of the relief money
But when mentioned it the gentry
and others said that the wage was mol
enough for even food but now that
nave begun ii, too many men have
come. and even the first day | had to
turn off some who wanted to work ut
ihat price Among those who wanted
work was splendid looking young
man lie and his wife had fled from
nome In pursuit Of Il means Of livcli-
mood They had gotten to where their
al was spent. and were trying TO sell
their first born and only child when
tho man found that he could get
this work TO do. The child is only eight
months old.
Three days ago one Of our Chris
tlans came to tell me that in less than
three minutes walk OF my door there
was young man. crouched down by
. the roadside with absolutely not one
! thread of clothing on him, while the
snow was falling rapidly upon his bare
nody. Later was in tho street and
saw young man that looked like a
decent workman, with one foot with
q prctcnSe of a shoe on it, while the
other Was trampinG the snow with
nothing; on it,
l;iit the most pitiful Of ali 10 me
IS now the people are having to do
ahout their children. 1t is the most
common thlng now to see a whcelbar-
70" or some other article OF domestic
"So IN INC street With n straw StucS
! Up on IT, This straw Is tic Chinese
| way OF announcing that the article Is
! for sale Now thorc are children 10 he
! seen Oh Inc streets with this same
/ a'-i attached to them. What is more
/! pitliul tflan what was seen a few DAYS
= asp-r7i child in its mothers arms with
= HtfaW stuck NJ on it aud or the one
io'!o"iiE2 TWO night ago Il child was
"ufich 10 ~ neck on wagonload OF
manure. was found and kept
through tilc night and then sold FOR a
4 catiS tnhoui q pound) OF brcnd'
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