Tsinan, Oct. 17.
When $275,000 was distributed from Shanghai last week among the various provinces for famine relief, not one single copper was sent to Shantung. The impression has gone abroad that Shantung is one of the fortunate provinces; but the exact opposite is true. Unfortunately Makuang and the dispute between the new Governor, Mr. Ch'i, and the Military Gov: ernor, Mr. Tien, centred the people's' attention" upon—politics. Meanwhile people in the northwestern part of Shantung were actually starving and_ millions were hopelessly and helplessly. slowly but surely drifting towards mass starvation, Gradually the awful facts of famine suffering did get a hearing, and the Provincial Assembly appointed the Public Famine Relief Committee, headed by Mr. Chang Kung-chih, second Vice-Speaker of the Provincial Assenibly. This committee is holding a three days' garden festival in the Public Park of Tsinan which wi probably yield $1,500 for famine relief. Besides this the committee is trying to get under way the construction of some of the automobile roads proposed by ex-Goyernor Ch'i. It is fairly certain that work on the Tungchang-Wu-ying road will be begun in the near future in order to give famine refugees an opportunity to earn a living till next spring.
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