Wenchow, Jan. 14.
The lowest temperature for the last 25 years has been experienced during the last. week in Wenchow. Five to seven degrees of frost has been registered each night and the day" temperature has been little higher. It. is unfortunate that this extreme weather should coin-ide with the time of such great distress and. extreme poverty. A fund of $100,000 has been raised to try and alleviate the sufferings of the poorest of the country people who have flocked to the city from the famine stricken countryside. Over 15,000 people are living in the temples of the city entirely dependent on charity. The authorities have tried to organize relief and congee is distributed from certain centres. Tice is also. dis tributed qn presentation of tickets which are obtained from the members of the-nelief committee and hundreds of little fires may be seen
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