Huai Valley Conservancy Scheme At the last meeting of the Governing Board, the Shanghai Chinese-Foreign Famine. Relief Committee took one of the most important steps that has ever been taken toward famine prevention, by bringing into being a representative "Huai Valley Conservancy Board."
Ta view of the fact that all the famine relief work now being undertaken by Famine Relief Committees contributes little or nothing to a permanent solution of the cause of the present famine in Anhui, Kiangsu. and parts of Honan, and that, even this summer, another flood) may occur and again bring famine to these provinces, the Shanghai Chinese-Foreign "Famine Relief Committee felt that immediate steps should be taken ti combat the cause of these ever recurring floods and famines, namely the Huai river and it's tributaries. The Committee therefore have established the "Huai Valley Conser-fancy Board" and have made a substantial contribution from their funds in Kiangsu as a commencement fund for this Conservancy Board, feeling sure that the province of Anhui, being vitally interested in this scheme, will also _contribute generously to the Huai Valley Conservancy fund, and the International Committee and the Provincial Authorities of Honan have been asked to contribute to this project, as they are also somewhat affected. It has also been decided to secure the services of some engineer of world-wide repute to make an investigation of the Huai Valley and to prepare an authoritative report, so that a thoroughly practical drainage scheme may be planned. Immediate steps are to be taken to secure the registration of the high water marks of the floods of 1921, og such information will be invaluable in the Jater planning of this scheme.
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