The writer has recently spent much time in various towns and villages in North Kiangsu. The return of prosperity to this section has been most welcome. One can hardly believe that gaunt want and pallid fever could have left so mapy strong and happy people. This has. been a fruitful season and here and there a house is being rebuilt. Yet the many ruins where only empty mud walls mark " former village, bear fearful testimony to the ravages of the famine. And too the joy in this prosperity is dampened by the distress that has arisen in Southern Shantung. Hundreds of
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