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Famines Sweeping Turkey, India, China, and Brazil

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 13, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 51, No. 24.

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Famines Sweeping Turkey, India, China, and Brazil

NEVER in modern times has there been such a period of famine as in the last five years. First in Anatolia (Turkey), then in India, and now in China and Brazil. Tens of thousands have died from sheer starvation. Last month the deaths from this cause in Brazil were reported to be as many as one hundred in a day. Government and individuals have done what they can, but are powerless to deal adequately with the calamity.