Tu response to an urgent appeal from Hsi Liang, the Viceroy of Ssechuan province, to the high nutliorities of the various provinces of the Empire asking for relief for the hundreds of thousands of i habitants of Szechusn province nw suffer-
HE. Sheng Kung-pav has collected a from" lengthened and severe drought, large sum of money from ce! lo KEicugoo province, and yesterday" trans-entry and merchants in this part of
mitted to Szechuan by_native bank draft no less x sum than Tls. 50,0v0. Although this seems a goodly amount, the famine in Szechuan that we it will be but as a drop in the bucket.
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