Autumn Crops Almost Nothing For Lack of Rain Peking, Aug, 18.
Mr, J, Cary Baker, General Secretary of the $10,000,000 American campaign for fan tine re-Jiet in China, Fas arrived in Peking after visiting the affected areas in Shantung and Chi states that fro: prevent considered, many In Deeple are existing on messes, chaff res of trees, held together tittle kaoliang, while in other places many are cating only eonsted graas-hoppers, of which there has been a plague in many parts, the grass-harpers cating the ice rope and mating them poorer Tue walls of the famous Coal Hi¥, in the ground of the old Im-Palace, in Peking, are to te down, seccrding to trope were eae to tet el Se fells lo vry pees bot corm, The pee percent, slete sora the upslaton on no eerring to Eh aments simers for them, be taught the rice "yeel snowed sere IP
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