The famine situation here grows more acute. The price of rice has reached twenty-one and two thousand cash per picul and the country districts are prohibiting the export from their districts. The rich ure holding their grain, some on speculation but others because there is no money in their own villages and the poor farmers are not allowing it to leave. The scarcity of rice and this enforced board? is causing the prices to go up and very little is being carried into the markets, so little that in many of the markets only one bushel can be bought by one person at a single market on market day. Needless to say, the poor people cannot buy and begging and starvation is on the increase. 'The writer met on a road into the city, covering ten miles, over fifty beggars and they were so poor; clothed and fed that they presenta most miserable sight. The' streets of the town are filled with beggars many of them children and women and they go crying after} everyone they see and actually) besiege the shops with insistent! walis, er AND Rice [Napequate.
International Famine Re-Association has sent $600 two Chenchow to buy rice and are being circulated against her. For one who came to this city at the time of the last old examination era, this new China seems almost a thing apart dream, but there are so many of the old things still remaining and so much of unrest and bandits and brigandage, remaining and so much of unrest and bandits and brigandage, and and starvation that it is only a sad commentary of the fact that at heart China is still needing the "expulsive power of a new affec-} tion" to really make her new.
The situation in Kiaholansan and Linwu is growing worse and worse. A village near to city of Kiaho was bumed and 15. or 16 of the inhabitants brutally killed by bandits. It seems that this village had been visited by bandits and one of their number was caught and taken ta the city and given over to the official, This was revenge for trying to mete out justice on one of their number.
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