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A letter from Albert Fish, the serial killer, claims in 1894 in Hong Kong "So great was the suffering among the very poor that all children under 12 were sold to the Butchers to be cut up and sold for food in order to keep others from starving." Is there any evidence to this?

by /u/dpacm123 in /r/AskHistorians

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