The Kiangsi International Famine Relief Committee has asked for $500,000, in addition to over $100,000 which it already has on hand, for flood relief in the province, which as one of the three hardest hit by the floods of the summer. Mr.
3, Todd, engineer of the Commission, gone to Nanchang to. make a Thordgh investigation' of the conditions in Kiangsi and draw Programme of relict. He will spend about a week: going over the flooded area with members of the local committee and then will return to Peking to make his report. It is expected that the relief there largely will take the form of the rebuilding of dykes which have been destroyed.
In Hunan conditions are so dif cult that no less than 10 trained investigators have been sent out to make reports on the flooded areas by the Hunan Committee of the Commission. It is expected that these reports soon will be completed, after which recommendations will be made and a programme of relief measures drawn up. It will not be possible till then to estimate the amount of money needed in this pro-wince, which has also suffered heavily. Owing to the different nature of the country, the flood came there with a great deal more violence than in Chibli. It is a hilly country with many streams which became raging torrents carrying destruction to all in their paths. The water did not remain over so wide an area as in Chibli, but was level with the eaves of the houses where it did rise.
The Commission is arranging rebuilding dykes in Hunan, and it also proposed to make advances of seed rice on a loan basis.
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