"The next few months will be a very bad time. Hitherto the people in the country have subsisted on a little grain and tsai gathered from the fields, but now this sup ply is ao longer available, and the time of great stress and scarcity is upon them. Only yesterday a poor woman asked for a fowl cash to buy half a cup of (fu tz) bran for her starving baby! And appeals are coming in front all round from destitute families, "Grain is cheap in Kansu, but it cannot be brought down without special permit. I think we can manage to get it here, however, by official arrangement. Grain is cheaper -in Sanyuan than in Sianfu and the people there, while in great need, can sometimes find refuge in the northern hills where supplies are cheaper."
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