The Calumet news., 1912-03-06
MISSIONARIES
ARE ATTACKED
British Church Worker in China
Killed and Native Christians
MassaCred
MORE U. S. TROOPS NEEDED
Seven Hundred Additional Men to
Be Sent From Manila
Famine Conditions in the Districts
Who're Crops Failed Are Vivid
H Described.

Washington, March 6.-Regarding
conditions in north China. Ambassador
Calhoun today reparted that British
missionaries in Chill province were at
tackled and that native Christians in
tho province of Shan Tung were mas
sacred
missionary named +. Day. be-
longing to the Church of England
mission was killed at Chin Chow to-
day by mutinous Chinese soldiers. An
ether missionary. +. s. Hughes, took
refuge i'm the town hall, where he stil
remains. detachment of British
soldiers has gone to Chin Chow to
rescue Hughes.
American Minister Calhoun has call
ed upon General Bell at Manila, for
more american troops for China. IT is
expected Bell will send seven hundred
men 70 Tien Tsin Immediately.
Famine Victims Eating Bark.
Mr.. Earl H. CrcSsy. an American,
who has recently returned from a tour
Of inspection Of the famine districts
of China relates many Instances Illus
tlative of the frightful conditions of
starvation which prevailed carly in
February. He made a minute examin-
alton OF many Chinese homes. Describ-
ing an inspection of all the houses,
large and small. in several groups. a.
total of ffty-nve houses. MIR. Cressy
makes the following statement:
"A straw stack indicates that there
has been a crop. found straw in four
yards. Grain was found I'm only seven
houses out of the nfty-five, and In no
place over peck OF IT, The food in
process OF preparation was invariably
greens-sweet potato leaves or carrot
tops, a thin. acrid smelling mass ell
the appearance of stagnant water and
about as appctizing only once i'm a
while containing n bit OF vegetable or
grain. About one out of every three
was eating elm bark which they pre-
pare by reducing IL to fine sawdust
and then making il into cakes. Whole
rows of trees have thus been stripped
of their bark. OF even such sorry food
as this only a few have any great
amount on hand. After it is gone they
will eat the bark OF the willow and
mulberry which cause swelling and
hasten death Except for these the
countryside is absolutely bare.
"To look back upon Il. the whole
seems like a bad dream. The gloom OF
the wretched homes, the whirling
snow, driven by the bitter wind. the
hungry garrulousness of the old Wom-
en-, the modest shyness Of young mat
rons at suddenly finding themselves
i'm the presence of a foreign man, lit
tic children crying over their pidfui
food. tho dumb agony on the face Of
the woman whom we had 90 tell that
her husband had Just breathed his last,
the dead with mummy faces and claw
like feet--all this is only a small part
IF ihe grim tragedy of the famine
where two and half million arc fac
ing conditions like these
AS rapidly as contributions are re-
ceived by the American Red Cross
they are hurried by cable TO the relief
in Shanghai. Up to March
I, $4,000 has been forwarded. Millions
are needed because the new grain
crop I'm china cannot be harvested FOR
three months.
The New York relief committee. CO.
operating closely with the Red Cross,
is urging every pastor in the United
States to speak to his congregation on
the famine on Sunday March 10th, and
TO take a collection for the starving.
The Rcd Cross approves this requcs;
and urges universal compliance with Il.
The money thus collected may be sent
to the New York China Famine Relief
I Madison Avenue, New
York. or to the American Red Cross,
I'm either case the
received will be acknowledged
and promptly cabled To China.