The telegraph relief office at Chinghai together with the four societies for the relief of Honan and Anhui, Yangchow and Chinkiang have received letters from their agents.
'The 16th instalment of Tls. 16,000 has gone forward, and repeated letters have arrived from' the inundated district in north Anhui and Honan reporting the extreme distress existing there. At Chung-mow of 2 and Wei-shih By 5& the ground inside and outside the walls is flooded, the houses have fallen down and the neighbouring villages are submerged. More than half of the stores of grain, food, and clothing have been carried away by the water, The close of autumn and the commence: ment of winter.are close at hand, and at such. a.season this great distress has to. be met, nor are there without aid, any visible in nor r great distress, it is worst in the four districts of Ying-shan $4 f, Fu-yang, " Tai-ho oe; and Feng-tsi ai stores of food are exhausted, but now in' addition. there' is the severe drought prevailing in prefectures of Yangchow and of Chinkizng, where this year's rice crop has been entirely lost, and where water for drinking pu: is lacking in an area extending over several hundred ti, Subscriptions and money are more urgently required than ever. On 29th October, Tls. 10,000 were sent to K'ai-feng-fu, 10,000 were taken by the ea Kiengsfu and the capital of Honan, and another
landed at Ngan-king. Tls. 4,000 have also been sent to Yangchow "Drought Relief Ofice." Altogether a sum of 1. 502,512 have been sent.
At the four districts before 79,000 people have been relieved agents of relief societies going and Tai-ho, whilst officials in Ying-shan and Feng-t'ai. A further 15, have also been relieved. It is expected that this autumn 150,000 people will require relief at Tvai-ho, as it is close to Chou-chia-kou, and at the other three districts 240,000 will be nearly stut-ving. A number of refugees, unable to" find work in South Kiangsu and South Anhui on account of the drought there, are also returning, and their number will not be inconsiderable. Relief agents have Tis, 66,000 in hand, but doubt if this sum and disorderly, especially near Chow-ohta enough. The people are getting savage kou and grent caro is necessarry,—Shén-pao,
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