in their tens of thousands are still here and are dying like flies every day. They are in such bumpers and they are so absolutely attempt any movement of relief, unless poverty-stricken that it is impossible to
a lat fund is forthcoming. It is a question whether it is any longer a duty to assist these people. If foreigners take the responsibility on their own shoulders it simply relieves the officials and postpones indefinitely the day when the government will take the necessary steps to control the Yellow River and thus obviate this yearly migration, It is a disgrace to the nations of the earth that there should be every year hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children driven out olive and die worse than any pariah dog. If the partition of China will remedy all these abuses and give the land security and good government the sooner it comes the better.
Eight men have been arrested in connection with the recent robberies; whether they are the men actually concerned or not is another question. The local officials were being pressed so hard by their superiors that they were bound to. produce somebody charged with the piracies.
10th March.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.