Tsinanfu, Nov. 10.
Famine conditions are serious in Shantung. But the committees in Shanghai and Tientsin, to say nothing of Peking, have thus far ignored this province. If anything has been done the foreign and Chinese organizations in Tsinanfu know nothing of it.
About 5,000,000 persons are in. danger and will have to be helped during the winter. Two millions are now actually starving and must die unless something is done to help them and done immediately. The foreign committee has something like $6,000. The Chinese committee reports $100,000 and plans to make a loan of $60,000. The speaker of the Provincial Assembly told me that the committee planned to organize internationally, but that the anti-Japanese feeling in the province was still so effective that many Chinese opposed foreign membership on the Chinese committee.
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