The true pinch has not come yet, but Mr. Forbes,
though he reports Northern Tirhoot as on the whole not so bad as he ex- pected, telegraphed on Wednesday that in Eastern Tirhoot suffering was rapidly increasing, that eighteen famine-deaths had occurred in four days near Mozufferpore, that the cart and grain supply is less than half the contractor's estimate, that the crowd of 15,000 persons mentioned elsewhere had doubled in a week, and that the effort to relieve the weakly by cooked food had entirely broken down. The people, as in Orissa, prefer death by hunger, just as starving Jews would prefer it to relief in blood-puddings. The Nuddea Colleges could have relieved us of this difficulty at once, but though Government was warned of it three months ago, the Hindoo Conclave have clearly not been conciliated.
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