Peking, Apr. 14.
It has been learned from local officials that a campaign is being started in Ameviea by the China International Famine Relief Commission for raising G.$10,000,000 for famine relief in China, When news of the famine in Shantung reached Peking last October the Commission started a eampaign for raising M.$1,000,000 for relief, but the New York committee of that organization has now decided to raise G-$10,000,000 in order to moot the need of all" the areas affected in Honan, Shantung and the Yangtze Valley.
The New York committee has delegated Mr. H, J. Timperley Australian newspaper man king, to proceed to Shantung to investigate conditions and make a Terrible Reports from Famine Area Peking, Apr. 19.
'The representative of the Fan' Relief Association in a message from Tehchow states that, according to responsible Chinese, conditions in that area are infinitely worse than they were in 1920, They estimate. the area affected at 100 square miles, with a population of 3,000, 000. Thirty per cent, of these are doomed to die, an equal number can be saved if given food or a chance to earn it, another 30 per cent. serape along somehow: only 10 per cent. escape privation, Grain prices have increased more than 50 per cent, Cabbage, which ig the principal winter food, has increased 300 per cent. in price.
The spring crops may average 50 per cent, the usual yield, but it feared that these will mostly be eaten by the starving population before they are given a chance to ripen.—Reuter.
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