Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1896 — ALL INDIA SUFFERS FAMINE. [ARTICLE]

ALL INDIA SUFFERS FAMINE.

Trouble la More Widespread than Had .Previously Been Supposed. The Calcutta Englishman contends that the home c/ficials are utterly at fault in regard to the dimensions of the famine. It adds that practically every province is involved, and asserts that such errors at

the outset may result in irretrievable disaster and suffering before the crisis is over. The Mark Lane Express in its crop report says that the rather heavy rainfall of December is welcome, and will give the November-sown grain a hopeful start. “Spain,” the, Express continues, “has enjoyed an extremely heavy rainfall since October, and the benefit to the agriculture of that arid peninsula is likely to be very great. Central Europe has seen a rapid rise of temperature, and rather heavy rainfall.” Referring to the Indian outlook, the Mark Lane Express says: “The India rains are too late to allow of anything like the average area of sown wheat for 1897.” Regarding the South American outlook, the Express says that the new wheat is now being reaped in the wanner provinces of Argentina, and adds that it learns that from 300,000 to 400,000 quarters of wheat may be expected from Montevideo.