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肆拜雞
THE GHASTLINESS OF FAMINE.
PROOF OF CANNIBALISM IN "KANSÜ,
FIGHTING FOR PEAS FROM MULES' FEED-BAGS,
A HIGHWAY OF STARVATION AND DEATH.
The sight of three of his six mules dropping in their tracks and dying, due to their cundition of starvation, was one of the experiences of Mr. G. Finlay Andrew, who is making a tour of Kansu Province for the Chias International Famine Relief Commission. Mr. Andrew left Pingliang after a few days' stop in
that city.
ped in their tracks. Pareats were crawling along the great highway, leaving their starving children, too weary to move another step, crying piteously after them. Whole fami- lies were sitting desolately by the roadside, at an end of all their resources and not knewing what to do next. It did not take long to arrive at the conclusion that the from the Governor in Lanchow, the Some distance outside Chingning Acting on instructions received dead were better off than the living. Pingliang district magistrate, a city I came across the body of companied by his son and two woman, possibly 20 years of age Mr. who from all appearances had only armed guards, escorted us." Andrew reports. "We had been been dead a very short while. As warned by many that we were ap- I stood viewing the body. I was proaching the area where we would joined by a man from a neighbour find famine conditions most severe.ing farmstead, who came prepared Indications as the truth of this to bury the body. Ab, teacher,' she did not die wanting.he remarked, not Transport was both difficult and easily. So desperately starved and expensive. Finally, we were able emaciated was the poor body that to secure two double-harness carts it was hard to believe is had con at a cost of 82 each. A Chinese tained enough vitality to, crawl tó friend travelling in oar company that spot that very noon and there secured a third cart from the same to dic-deserted-with her face to inn at the same rate..
the setting sun. But, after all, her case only was typical of the many we saw,
statement were
Of the three carts thus hired. only one reached Lanchow, and of six animals three died en route. This will give you some idea of the conditions now existing on what was, a few years ago, one of the main transport thoroughfares in China, along which there, was an unending stream of carts, pack. mules and camels. Animals are in
searching the Boor for any faller scraps of food. One of these, a, mere lad, found some pieces of eggshell, which he promptly de youred.
The Crumbs That Fell. "In the same place, an old man saw the carter accidentally spill the smallest quantity of bran on the
the old man swooped down upon g1ound, where he was mixing the maah for his mules. Immediately the spot and, scooping up with both hands the bean and dust with which it was mixed, swallowed the whole. As many persons as possible would crowd around the feeding baskets of the cart animals and would pick up, one by one, the peas which tell from the baskets or the animals' mouths and cat them. Those with slightly more strength would tear any food they could out of the hands of the weaker.
日月年九廿百九仟登英
From Pingliang on to Lanchow. the main road is lined on both sides (with the exception: of certain parts which lie on mountain tops or in ravines) with trees which were planted some 60 or 70 years ago by The Most Horrible Phases,
the famous General Tso Kong Pao, Before even reaching Kansu, we In past years, these have been a had heard reports of cannibalian pride and glory, affording welcome being practised in the province, and shade so the traveller during the seme of these reports ven had heat of summer. From Chingning found their way into the news-to Anting, the trees have been de papers. I determined to investigate pleted of their bark, which has been We one such published account and eaten by the starving populace. verify it before including it in my saw the trees being stripped, the report. Some to, or so, distant bark being, cut into fine strips and from the city of Chingning lies the powdered and after that mixed market of Shuitoh cheng and it was with, the food and eaten. reported that, about the beginningable to obtain samples of the differ. of March, some 35.brigaads had ent kinds of food the people are been killed in that place and the eating and now even these sub- flesh had been eaten by the starving stitutes for food are almost ex- Men on Level With Beasts.
populace. I found this story was hausted. "From the transport point of commonly accepted in Chingaing view, this last stage of the journey and I was furnished by one of the has been the most difficult I have|leading gentry with his card and had to negotiate in 20 years of full permission to use his name as travel in these parts. To supple one who had witnessed the killing ment the lack of animal transport, of the brigands, the cutting off of large numbers of wheelbarrows are their flesh and the eating of it.
such a starved condition that they simply are unable to face the moun- tains, one pass of which is at an elevation of more than 10,000 ft.
above sea level. Within a distance of less than five is of the city gate of Lanchow, we passed the carcasses
of two dead mules.
conditions
•
The Procious Rain. Everywhere one saw people out in the fields or on the hillsides, rubbing for roots, herbs, or a kind of coarse clover. Unless rain comes very soon in the Anting and Hwei- ping. Tengwei and Chingan die tricts, there will be no hope of any harvest at all during the current year.
From Anting.
Lanchow,
which 1 fair
coming into use along the road, but "Another willing to bear witness I do not know which is the sadder In the truth of the report is a man sight, to see under-fed animals in the employ of the mission station falling beneath their loads, or half- and who had just returned from starved men staggeringly pushing Shuilch cheng, where he had seen
whereas the conditions remained barrow with two to three hundred some of the bodies lying with the pretty much the same as from An- catty leads.
flesh cut off from certain parts. Prepared 28 we were for ad Indeed, throughout the whole section the same absolute scarcity of food. ting westward, still there was not sights west of Pingliang, I do not of the journey these stories of can- although it maat he borne in mind. think we were quite ready for the nibalism commonly wore accepted that this in ordinary times is a
We found existing and caused no surprise: from Longteh-hsien to Anting-hsien. So severe is the shortage of food great wheat-raising area, Length, Chingning, Hweining and in the Hweining and Anting dis-pplies Lanchow with Aating furnished conditions in-tricts. that the distribution of amount of the food" consumed in
ithat city. creasing in severity in their order money gave no relief to the starv- "The following are some of the of sequence. We had not proceededing and on more than one occasion prices experienced in this section:" very far outside Pingliang when when we had no more bread to give we passed dead bodies lying by the fauny were offered. the money
"Pingliang.-1_purchased about roadside. One of the most grue-back in return for a mouthful of 8 catties of flour. same sights we witnessed during the food. In some of the little places "Chingning-91 purchased about earlier stages of this section of the in the mountains, conditions were journey was the corpse of a man desperate. At one such place, where who had died by the roadside and we stopped for a noon halt, we had which had been covered over with great difficulty in getting water and a little earth, then disinterred by we were so surrounded by starving dogs and partially devoured. people that we were forced to shut All along the road, we were met ourselves up in a room and even
We
by increasingly sad sights Em-then the group tried to hammer in aciated forms staggered along till the door. When eventually the door they were unable to move another was opened, several of the people step, whereupon they simply drop game into the room and commenced
5 catties of four.
"Hweining81 purchased about
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Antiag. 81 purchased about 4
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Lapchow.-81 purchased about
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These are the normal prices for second grade four and in some of these centres it is impossible to obtain any quantity."
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