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* PAGEFOURTEEN 4.6 i Se CANNIBALISM IN. CHINA DESCRIBED Appalling. Stories of Starv- ing Populace. Told by '. Missionary London, im the famine op ages of 'northwest China have come, from time' to time, appalling stories of cannibal- ism amongst the starving populace. Hitherto these reports have been treated with reserve, but reason- ably definite evidence of such prac- tices has now been forwarded to the China International Famine Relief Commission authorities here by the Rev. G. Findlay Andrew, of the China Inland Mission. Mr. Andrew set out from Peip- \ng #everal weeks ago for Lan- chow, the capital of Kansu prov- ince, on a special tour of investiga- tion for the Commission, and he describes the last part of his jour- ney, a stretch of about 200. miles between Pingliang and Lanchow as being the most difficult he has had to 'negotiate in twenty years uf travel in those parts. A few years ago this was one of the main high- ways in northwest China, and along it went an unending stream of carts, pack-mules, and cameis, Mr.: Andrew found that animals everywhere were in such a starved condition that they were unable to tackle the step mountain passes, and that man-power wheel-barrows were being used to make up for the lack of four-footed transport. "TI don't know which," he writes in -his report, "is the sadder sight --to see underfed animal falling beneath their load, or half-starved men staggering along with heavily loaded barrows. Conditions increased in severity as. Mr. Andrew . pushed farther westward: All along the road we were met by. increasingly sad sights. Emaci- ated forms staggered along till they . simply dropped in their tracks. Parents were crawling along the great highway, leaving 'heir starving children, too weak jo. move another step, crying pite- dusly after them. Whole families ware sitting desolately by the road- )ide at an end of all their re- Jources, and not knowing what to lo next. It did not take long to « $2,000.00 FIRST MORT- GAGE funds wanted on a * completed house, Phone TABLES 1} .P.R, TIME TABLE. Effective April 29, 1928, _ (Standard Time) om | 45 a | .23 a.m. Daily. | ,40 a.m. Daily except Sunday, { p.m. Daily, | 34 p.m. Daily. | Go Naw Pana trig me ing East Fir a a.m. Daily. 04 p.m, Daily. 03 p.m. Daily except Sunday, .10 p.m, Daily. .03.a,m. Daily. ; times shown above are times depart from Oshawa Station, CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS Effective April 28, 1929, (Standard Time) East! 23. a.m. Daily sacent Sunday, 58 a.m, Sunday only. 9.59 a.m, Daily. 17 p.m. Daily except Sunday, p.m, Daily. p.m. Daily except Sunday, ze a trains z 27 p.m, Daily, 2 8.42 p.m. Daily except Sunday. Whitby, Oshawa, Bowmanville BUS LINE WEEK DAY SCHEDULE (Effective on and after April 28, 1929.) (Daylight Saving Time) West Arrive Whitby 2.25 am, Arrive 3 ame 233 10.50 a.m. 12.45 p.m. BSe» BuEnlBuns 2B OW in ates i E] $PPproorEn 23233 2 ie ; i LS Fedele TO Saou £ [8 + g pi PEPE. BEEBEBBE 28st =] Hs B50 2 w 3 £ 5 e are through Whitby Hospital SUNDAY AND HOLIDAY SCHEDULE Going West 11.00 pay, " Time marked are i t Wei Bats' For. All Occasions Reasonable Rates and Careful Drivers We Phone 412 or 348 - Hospital | 2 t Ushavwe Waig™s Roam, 10 Prince St-- a arrive at the conclusion that the dead were better off than the liv- ing. - A Specific Case Mr. Andrew determined to inves: tigate a specific case of cannibag ism which had been published in the newspapers, and to verify it 1f possible. His report dealing with this subject states: Some forty ll or so distant from the city of Chingking lies the mar- ket of Schuilohcheng, and it was reported that about the beginning of March some thirty-five briganas had: been killed in the place and the flesh had been eaten by the starving populace. I found that this story was commonly accepted in Chingking, and I was furnished by one of the leading gentry with his card and full permission to use his name as one who had witnessed the killing of the brigands, the cut- ting off of their flesh, and the eat- ing of it. Another man willing to witness to the truth of the report fs in the employ of the mission sta- tion. He had just returned from Shuilohcheng, where he had seen some of the bodies lying with the flesh cut off from certain parts. Indeed, throughout this whole sec- tion of the journey these stories of cannibalism were commonly ac- cepted and caused no surprise. So severe. was the shortage of food in some districts that distri- bution of money gave no relief to the starving, and on more than one occasion Mr. Andrew was offered the money back in return for a mouth full of food. At one place where he stopped for a noon-day halt his party were so surrounded by starving people that they were forced to lock themselves up in 4 room, When eventually the door was opened several of the people came into the room and commenced searching the floor for any fallen scraps of food. One of these, a mere lad, found some pieces of egn- shell, which he promptly devoured. In the same place an old man saw the carter accidentally spill the smallest quantity of bran on the ground where he was mixing up & mash for his mules. Immediately the old man swooped down upon the spot and, scooping up with both hands the bran and dust with which it was mixed, swallowed the whole. As many persons as possi- ble would crowd around the {eea- ing baskets of the cart animals anda would pick up, one by one, the peas which fell from the baskets or ine animals' mouths and eat them. Those with slightly more strength would tear any food they could out of the hands of the weaker. Twenty Millions The main road from Pingliang on to Lanchow is lined on wpuin sides, except on the mountain-tops and in the ravines, with trees which were planted there several decades ago hy the famous Gener- al Tso Kong-pao. In the past these have been a source of local pride and glory, In addition to affording welcome shade to the traveller dur ing the heat of summer. Over a stretch of about seventy-five miles Mr. Andrew found that the natives had stripped the trees of their bark, afterwards powdering it up to be eaten as food. Everywhere he saw people out in the fields or on the hillsides grabbing for roots, herbs, or a kind of coarse clover, A8 Simcoe Street, South, PT yo, _--. THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1929 --- le Sh RS Mr. Andrew fears that. unless' rain comes Very soon a great part of this region will have no harvest at all this year. ' ; i Hansy, according to a statement) issued recently by. the executive se-: cretary of the. Ching International Famine Relief Commission, is but one of nine provinces north of the Yangtse River that have been hard hit by drought and famine. Specifi- cally and in order of severity, the areas in which actual famine conai- tions now obtain are given as Sui- yuan, Kansu, North and Central Shensi, Shahar and: Southwestern Honan, Northern and Southwestern Shansi, South Hopel (formerly Getting Skinner Every Day Something Must Be Done and Done Right Now--Quick Tens of thousands of thin, run- down men--yes, and women too-- are getting discouraged-----are g1v- ing up all hope of ever being able to take on flesh and look healthy and strong. All such people can stop worry- ing and start to smile and enjoy life right now for McCoy's Cod Liv- er Extract Tablets are putting flesh on hosts 'of skinny folks in all parts of the world every day. One woman, tired, weak and dis- couraged, gained 15 pounds 1 rive weeks and now feels fine. And this shows what faith the makers have in McCoy's for they say; if any thin person don't gain at least 5 pounds in 30 days your money will be refunded--and only 60 cents for 60 tablets--Economy Size--$1.00. Ack for them at Jury & Lovell, T. B. Mitchell, W. H. Karn, or any drug store, {have a total population of about known as Chihli) Northwestern Shantung, and some parts of Hu- peh. These areas are estimated to forty millions, at least half of 'whom are said to have been re- duced to famine level. Afded by native organizations, the Commis- sion is doing what it ca nto relieve the situation, but it has met with many serious obstacles, including lack of effective Government co- operation in providing railway fa- cilities for the transportation of grain. As a large part of the fam- ine area can be reached only through Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang's stronghold in Honan, the menacing prospect of an armed struggle be- tween the Christian general and Nanking has put an end to relief operations there for the present. [000TH BIRTHDAY |GELAND'S "HOUSE" World's Oldest Parliament, Althing, Celebrates Ev- vent this Month : Teeland--The thou- sandth anniversary of the oldest Parliament in the world, the Al- thing, will be celebrated next month at Thingvellir, in Iceland, where it met and debated for 900 years or more. From the days when Tceland was first colonized by a group of Norwegian earls who had fled from the tyranny of Harald Fair- hair, their king, the assembly or the Icelandic Parliament for pur- poses of justice and government has been known as the Althing; Reykjavik, and from the earliest, almost leg- endary, times of the sagas until within living memory the Althing has met in the open air at Thing- vellir., The assembly took place every two years, and there all cases were settled, justice meted ont, laws made, and national problems dis- cussed. There were frequently duels to the death, and In those days of constant and bitter feuds the Althing had often to decide the amount of blood money due to a dead man's family from his mur- derer. Rk ' The ancient meeting place of Northern Europe's first Republie- an Government fs a wide rocky plain, carpeted with moss and hea- ther. In the distance rise the gleaming peaks of the "jokules'"-- mountains covered by eternal snow and glaciers. The plain is split by almost parallel chasms, due to vol- canic action--for everywhere in Iceland the "earth-fire" is very near the surface, only just under the rocks and snow. . The shallower of these chasms is called the Allmanagja--All Men's Rift--and down it rode all the great chieftains and warriors of the old Norse sagas, with thelr wives and households, on their way to the Althing. Njal, the kind old man who was burned in his own house by his enemies; Gunnar, with his golaen- haired, lying, vengeful wife; Egill, whose son the sea took, and who made a lovely song to assuage his grief; Hrafn, the skald, and his friend, Gunnlaugur, Snake-tongue, who both loved white Helga, and 80 came to their deaths--all came riding down All Men's Rift on thelr ponies, and look upon a scene prac- tically unchanged. On the right is the rocky plain with the bare brown mountains lifting their gleaming snowfields beyond, and great rock walls rising on the left hand, shutting out the view. Further on a leaping water- fall flashes out over the precipice Cor and plunges to the rocky floor of the rift. ' This fall or "foes" is often wen- | tioned * in the sagas. The river flows on, to form, between dark | rocks, a deep, sinister pool, which | they tell you, is still called the | Drowning Pool. There are also | stories of women criminals being | tied in a sack with a live cat, and | flung into it, though whether they | have any foundation in fact it is | difficult to say. { Here and there on the plain may | still be seen the remains of the | earthen huts or booths built for | shelter by those who came here in | their hundreds in times past. A chasm parallel to the Allman- | agja ig called the Flosagja--Flosi's | Rift. - This Flosi, a character in| Njalssaga, had killed a man in a fued; his relations, having won the | judgment of the Althing, chose to! avenge him themselves. Two or! three of them forthwith set upon | Flosi, who, after fighting for some | time, turned and fled. | They were just gaining on him | when he came to the great dark | rift in the earth, filled with glae- ier water, 20 to 40 feet across, and reputed to be bottomless. In des- | peration he took a flying leap into the air, and landed safely on the | opposite bank! | The country people say it Is ac- | cursed and no man can swim it. It is so deep and so incredibly clear | that one seems to be looking into | the heart of the old dark earth, and | there somes into the mind the strange stories of witcheraft and queer elemental things so often met with in this lovely, melan- choly land. 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