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former member of the | ; Indian legislature, . who has just Mr, Steelé © pleted a tour of famine areas in Bengal and other afflicted provinces, estimate at many times this figure. is general appreciation in the fact that British public’ liament have finally awak- | the shocking state of affairs | at they are pleading with ish government for speedier | drastic remedial action. shiploads of Australian | which arrived in India dur-| the last two weeks, were gratereceived but had only a neglieffect on the disaster, which afmillions. News interest has ocused on Calcutta but Cal-| is only a single spot on the map which covers much of | Bengal and parts of Orissa, Bihar, | Tranvancore, Wadras and several’ provinces.

Unbtiried Corpses ' One could count endless stories | of acute suffering in rural areas but it would serve no purpose for all follow the same pattern. They are | stories of unburied corpses, of aban- | Goned villages, of deserted wives children, of walking skeletons, | é malaria, dystentery and cholera, | of

inadequate medical supplies. |

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With the advent of colder weath- |

er, there is now, moreover, the pros- | pect of a heavy death toll among | the undernourished masses from | exposure, One eyewitness writes: | “It is difficult to say which is more common, hunger or nakedness. | : in the streets are often utterly naked. I saw a mother ~ savagely resisting a child who was | frying to protect his naked body - from shill wind with part of the rag she was wearing. All along the way I saw boys of 10 or 12 with no! shred of clothing on their bodies. Girls and women could not go about © this way but torn and dirty rags made them look more horrible than | utter nakedness. Winter is coming and from December the nights will be cold. I am not sure if more

Travelers through the Bengal ~ countryside relate how many peasants have been obliged to sell their! ~ lands and houses to obtain money for rice which sells at outlandish

. This has been accomplished only with great difficulty and others have had to suffer.

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