Peking, Feb, 24.
"Even owners of 100 mow of land are compelled to beg because of famine conditions in western Shantung, is reported from reliable sources by one correspondent of the China International Famine Uelief 'Tree-leaves, grass,*weeds, cotton seeds and what not are used in place of food grain; chairs, tables, ete, are sold to keep their owners from starving; girls had to be sold. given away lest they die, and that the condition is due to' complete crop failure, not to military. oppression, are points touched upon morning. Passages' of the original report follow:
"He reports that they investigated 43 villages to the West and Northwest of Lintsing, none of them more than 80 Li from Lintsing city. He mentions two villages being especially bad—Hsiao Hai Li Chuang, and Ta Hei Chuang, In both of these places people are reduced to eating the leaves from the trees, grass and weeds, Those who are a little better off are eating cotton seed, but there are few who can get the latter, In Halao Hai Li Chuang, the homes are bare, People have sold chairs, tables, and all they have to keep from starve ing. People with anywhere from 20 to 800 mow of land are starving along with the rest. The conche tion is due to complete failure of crops, not to military oppression, in Ta Hel Chuang, a village of some 60 families only four or five are left, all the rest having loft and become beggars due to all thely livelihood being gone, People who had 80 and 100 mow of land are Ddexgars like the rest, "At Hung Kuan Ying only 10 11 out of Lintsing city in one family that the investigator mentioned they fare trying to either sell or give away two girls, because they have means of supporting them. He nid' that, in many cases, "chile dren were being sold or given away because the parents had other, way of Keeping them from starving! type, but the greater part shows the influence of Western schools.
Adjacent to the gallery is the N tionalist "Hall of Fame." Herein la kept green the memory of thos" who laid down their lives for the the revolutionary cause. Photoes, paintings, and eulogistic panegyric are profusely in evidence, a paling of arms captured from various cornies marks a way round the build. ing, and the garments of some of the more notable heroes, often saturated with their life-blood, occupy conspicuous niches. 'There also is a place for the popular presentation of the Nationalist doctrines, very particularly the Peoples' Three Principles, and this rooms is filled a great part of the time.
Another notable departure of the present administration the thought and expense for the children. In one of the central areas of the Hsiang Kwei Si every kind of play appliances has been provide ced for: the younger generation, and every other available open space the city has the thought been expanded for their pleasure and physical betterment, Schools again are opening, although there is. the same difficulty in respect to finane= es. A notable feature of the second. fry schools is that they all come. under one First Middle School. There are at. present 160 teachers attached to this First. School, and they expect 3,000 pupils to be Te istered this term. This may be possible, as there is a greater mea sure of peace over a larger aren of the province than at any time There is a new. reparation of off Hcials," which has registered several hundred pupils. Among these are the recent graduates of the Middle Schools, and men who already have' been magistrates for years under the old regime. There is a new is school fostered by the Departmen of Finance, for the proper prepara~ tion of men capable of administering money properly.
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