Result of Investigations by Mr.
Baker and Dr. F. F. Tucker into Conditions Prevailing in Shantung The following statement has been issued by Mr. John E. Baker, General Secretary of the China Famine Relic? committee, dated August ar Famine in China is a fact, Tt is not merely forecast for next winter; it is a fact now.
About eight miles west of Lints-ing, in Western Shantung, begins strip some 30 miles wide and about 100. miles long where practically mone of the fields have more than a third of a crop and some have none cat all, I visited this area and saw the results of drought, the ravages of grasshoppers and the extremities to which the people are reduced. I have not covered the whole area. Bur I went *o Lintsing, where T met '4 group of representatives who came from the areas just indicated.
selected two of the districts among the many which were named. On'
districts, I visited myself.
other I sent Dr. F, F, Tucker On our return we compared notes and found our experience to be practically identical, The reports Which had been made to us were verified in detail.
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