To the Editor of the Noxrn-Cuixa Dairy News, Sim,—I enclose an extract from a letter just received from Dr. Watson of Tsin Chou-fu, with reference to Famine Reliel in that district.
is especially interesting as showing Ist.—The method of distribution, 2nd,—The extremity of distress which alone is held to entitle a sufferer to relief.
Srd.—The immense importance of knowing at once the amount of funds available, and 4th.—That the money is not distributed to Christians.
The Baptist Mission at, Tsing Chou-fu has wisely (and nobly) decided to relieve all the native Christians in its districts out of its own funds, so that there can be no sug+ i n the distribution of the missionary distributors un-
Lam Sir, Your obedient servant, Hesry B. Bristow, Chairman, Shantwuy (Chefoo) Famine Relief Committee, P.S.—The Chefoo Committee has decided to apply all funds sent to it to the relief centres now established, and it is intended to carry 60,000 people through the famine. To do even this will require at the very least another Tls. 10,000. Should more than this sum be forthcoming the numbers can be easily extended from existing centres to 100,000. There is little doubt that in the districts now being relieved by the Chefoo Committee, the distress is worse than in any other part of Shantung.
The Taotai of Chefoo is about to adopt measures for the relief of the portions of these districts which cannot be included in the operations of the Chefoo Committee.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.