The following report on famine conditions in the Tientsin fecture has been made by the Re Father P. Corset, of the Lazarist Mission, to the Bishop of Peking. Father Corset writes Having asked the missionaries of the territory of the prefecture - ut Tientsin to let me know the state of the population azong which they live I have been able gather the following information.
The famine is more especially prevalent in a belt which goes east of Hoxienfu and runs right out to the sea. his territory comprises sub-prefectures of Tsangchow, Yenchan, Nanpy and Kingyun. the harvest of the previous year only gave about three-tenths of the ordinary yield and this year the harvest is nil.. In certain places as for instance at Tsangchow it rained during the sixth moon and the peasants profited by the occasion to sow their fields, but then the drought set in and the stem of the corn, hardly out of the ground, dried up, so that in reality the misery of the poor peasants has been increased by the loss of the grain which they had confided to the earth.
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