24th August.
The calamities that have overtaken China this year are so numerous and so vast, that it seems impossible, however good our will, for foreigners to make any impression on them in the way of relief. The sufferings entailed on the people by the ware like operations in the north are a mer-fleabite in comparison with those caused by the vagaries of nature. Lhe famine in Shansi and in Shensi, where human flesh is openly sold for food at 180 cash a catty, say a halfpenny a pound, is—being relieved to a certain extent by the large sums sent by charitable people in the United States, but even thousands of dollars can do little where millions of people are starving. From Newchwang we hear of floods in Manchuria in which hundreds of lives have been lost. The Yellow River has again burst its banks on
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