Ebola outbreak in DR Congo: One death every 30 minutes

Famine and the plague are sweeping over China. The known deaths from the plague number 10,000, and according to the official statistics, the death rate averages 200 daily. But the officials say but little is known of the true conditions. It is impossible even to estimate the number of deaths that have resulted from lack of food. Dr. Samuel Cochran, an American, who is engaged in the work of relief, writes: "One million people will die before the first crop is harvested. This will be scanty, because the people have not the strength to till the soil. And no animals remain for ploughing." So far Japan and America are the only foreign countries that have contributed to aid the sufferers, but even the assistance that has come from the United States is entirely inadequate. It is estimated that 100,000 people are without food and are existing on roots, grasses or anything that affords the slightest possibility of nourishment. Those possessing grain guard it night and day. Missionaries, who are distributing relief, tell of many tragic occurrences—a man on his way to meet them, dying in the road; another falling in the road as he was returning to his family with packets of rice. From the famine, the death rate is several thousand daily.