Nanking, Mar, 8 In the late autumn of 1911, when the severe famine in the north of Kiangsu, Anhui, and Honan drove! thousands of "famine—refugees down into the relatively warmer, and more prosperous Yangtze valley, a strange, red-faced, armed 4 typical shillelagh red-headed, burly Trish man, and his two-side pockets filled with coppers, could be seen prowling: among the worst beggar huts in the west part of the city of Naning, trying to locate the most miserable and needy to relieve some of their suffering. by more or less surreptitious gifts of money.
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