Through the courtesy of the Procure des Lazaristes, we are enabled to publish the following account of conditions at Weihueifu, North Honan, on September 15 The drought which has reigned here about a year is now almost general but the plates which have been most stricken and where the misery is most poignant are those where cotton is grown, this being the case in the sub-prefecture of Changtehfu.
Grain is there not only absolutely priceless but almost nonexistent. The trains which transport grain are very often plundered as at Weihueifu and at Sinsiang; the sub-prefects have no power to ensure transportation as
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