The Famine in India.-

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 24, 1874

The Famine in India.—

A late dispatch received at the Indian office, London, from George Campbell, Lieutenant Governor of Bengal, gives a most alarming report of the condition of the people of that Presidency. He says fully 170,000 persons are starving to death in the districts affected by the famine, and that all the poorer classes are beginning to feel the want of food.

Accounts from Calcutta to March 6 show that the famine is increasing in Tirhoot. In Rungpore where there has been no actual suffering as yet, the stores of the poor people are becoming exhausted and starvation is imminent. The relief organization in Calcutta is working excellently, but it can hardly meet the immense demands which will be made upon the government.