Famine in Japan

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 26, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 47.

"And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines," said Christ, speaking of the increase of calamities as the end drew near. The earthquake and tidal wave in Japan, which caused such enormous loss of life, is being followed by the first serious famine that country has ever experienced. "The horrors of it," says a report, "can not be told in language lurid enough to furnish an adequate portrayal." "The Japanese Government is issuing wholesale legal permits to destitute parents to sell their daughters." This abominable traffic is resorted to in the nation which, first of all in the far east, has proudly taken its place as a military power alongside western nations.—Present Truth (London).