'There will be much suffering here in three months' time. The maize crop has been below normal and the rice crop is an almost total failure. The prices of grai are already three times what they were in the spring and no prospect of their becoming lower. A lot of the rice hias been cut green and sold for fodder. In a nine days' country trip I noticed in many places fields there not one enr in a hundred contained grain, The prefect has petitioned for a grant of some thousands of taels to relieve the poor, The spring crops have all been planted and so far promise well. Unfortunately good land which was formerly given up to wheat and beans is uow used for the growth of the poppy. We scattered thousands of appeals asking the farmers in view of the famine not to cultivate the opium and I begged the prefect to second these efforts by a proclamation. He readily promised and has posted throughout the whole prefecture good advice on the subject, Tia not in speech is a country's salvation Lads that can fall with their face to the foo—These are the men to make Ireland a nation Slainte, O Trish who fought at Glencoe Saxon and Celt the' they strive to dissever, Faction may part us and seas are between, Soldiers are links to unit Soldiers of Erin who died for the Queen 1 po for over,
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