4,000,000 Mow which Might Be Converted on Reclamation into. Valuable Ground Mr. 0, J. Todd, engineering representative of the China International Famine Relief Commission, has just returned to Peking from an. investigation of the flooded areas around Nanchang in Kiangsi province. Mr. Todd spent about a week in this region and was accompanied throughout by missionaries, thoroughly familiar with the country and representatives of the Provincial Committee of the Com-
The foo Kiangsi Province, Mr, Todd reports, was due to breaks in and overtopping of the dykes, His trip extended along the Kan Kiang 220 li south of Nanchang, as far as the last bad break. As there is no regular unkee} bureau in the province, the dykes had been neglected and in places weakened by villages being built 1 along the tops, Mr. Todd recommended repairing: the main dyke breaks for a distance of 200 Li south of Nanchang, at an estimated cost of $40,000. Later the Committee may undertake dening and increasing the heigh of the dike for several hundred i.—this work to be conducted over a period of two or three years.
Already the water in this region has run off. An amount of rice as been planted and will be harvested in due course.
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