Remembering the distribution of relief by the foreigners on the occasion of the like calamity three years ago, deputations are already beginning to present themselves asking help for their villages, even note destitute than then, Probably little can be looked for from this source. "Nor is there any real need, for we have been credibly informed that there is in connection with the Viceregal yumén and the Official Benevolent Society of Tientsin, quite one and half million taels available for such relief work. If one-third of this amount were honestly distributed among the actually needy during the next eight or nine months, there need be very few deaths from star: vation over all this large flooded section of country.
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