The greatest sufferers by the famine last year in Shansi and Shensi were those in the Suh and Ning districts. Although the government granted relief to the destitute Fopuluce there, the distress was not mitigated on nccouut of the large numbers of Kasuwhach'eng children and women were copie to be thus assisted. Recently at
being sold, a spectacle must repugnant to witness, Reduced to this extreme, and having exhausted all means of subs tance, the distressed people may be driven to outb.eaks of which there is certainly danger.
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