From the details already supplied by the sub-committees it estimated that 200,000 people require immediate help whilst another 200,000 are in pitiably re duced circumstances. Allowing only two dollars per head per month for those in the first category and 50 cents per head for the second no less than $2,000,000 will be needed to keep these poor people going till the middle of April when the bean crop will begin The Committee have arranged for the purchase of 70,000 piculs of maize, that being the cheapest form of foodstuff, and some of this has already come forward and been sent up to the depots under the control of the sub-committees: The first severe pinch, however, will not be felt before the winter solstice (December 21), Mr. Carey, the ce-chairman on the central Committee, in answer to a letter your correspondent addressed to him on the subject, replies as follows:—"Given the requisite funds, I feel confident that our Committee will be able to cope with the situation but it ig imperative that money in sufficient amounts should be forthcoming promptly. Conditions in the interior are reverted to be steadily growing worse, The able-bodied amongst those whose homes and fields are destroyed are banding together and committing acts of law-Jessness and in some places travelling is no longer safe. I hope that you will lay emphasis on the fact that the charitably inclined need not fear that any funds entrusted. to us for relief purposes will be unwisely need. We should welcome gifts of maize, sweet potatoes or any other food stuffs."
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