Fees Ovx Own Connesponnen® kao, Ku, Jan. 6, 'As orders have just been issued, fto"the Jukao authorities to protect' [the foreigners in the neighbour-Phood, six. families of Americans Hhave been found here and although none of them have been molested in Jukao, repeatedly Chinese Tamihave' been robbed by constantly creasing robber bands coming Jdown apparently. from the north. Some of the robbers have been featured, but the many stray soldiers Moating about ave greatly, feared by the Jukao people, After several months -of att cate given to: as many a famine refugees, the Sukao Famine Relief Committee to-day ended its ik of benevolence by sending. the Femaining 700 odd refugees back their own homes in the formerly loosed. sections of Kiangsu. The strong men had been gradually sent fon ahead and many of. the people who left to-day were wonien and children, The death vote "among them "has been very high. "AWith two meals of soft rice a day and bit of vegetable many. of the given, suffered from malnutre fresh deaths, ion and a little set back brough Several: boats were hired, each person was given a dollar und-each child fifty cents and all were shipped back t0 their respective homes The sight was indeed pitiful practically all of them were home: less and saw death and starvation staring them in the face. Only a dollar'a head really means but couple of days of food and with no shelter to welcome them on arrival many were loathe "to'Ieave, and wept,
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