Foreigners in Peking have been undisguisedly astonished by the an= ouncement that a. campaign for $10,000,000 gold is being undertaken, in the United States for famine relief In China, It hax been a come hon belief here that famine conditions in Shantunge and elsewhere fare not -mueh worse than sta This feeling perhaps ix best exe plained by an extract, from the Took recently published by John Kane Baker, who i in charge of the campaign in America, Mr. Baker describes. presently Chinn asin civilization, "which—leaves nearly a third of its population tunder-nourished, which drowns. its unwanted children and accepts Famine and pestilence as a means fof making life' easier for the sur= a third of the people of China always are unday-nearished, a8 Mr, Baker states, it is not suprising that residents here ave havelly aware of the fact when conditions come somewhat worse, With long people always near the stars ation line, it isnot remarkable that the famine in Shantung this car has attracted less attention in Peking than it apparently has in the United States-—"Japan Ad= vortiser
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