Some Districts AN But Ruined From Our Own Correspondent, Tsingkiangpu, Ku., Jan. 3.
The writer took a 100-mile motorcycle trip in the north-country on Saturday and made careful inquiries into the conditions there. From a rapid survey I would say that at least nine-tenths of the wheat crop has been planted but the areas not planted are more or Jess grouped near each other and the want in those sections will be severe. It is probable that the most needy section is west of here, just north of the Hung Tsi lake, as all of that section was under water this summer, and the people not only lost their crops but their homes, farming implements, and personal effects. Probably 50 or 60 thousand people are in want in that section. Several members of this station are planning to leave on a trip of inspection in that region to-morrow and two men from Shanghai with moving picture machines are expected to make the trin with them.
We have had the most unusual weather so far this winter, up to the present time having had practically "no frost and neither rain nor snow. This is the first time in six years that the foreign New Year has found us without bitter weather to contend with.
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