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the Yangtze Dicer' floods' of last Li, the farmer, sat at the door of his one room house." Tt was a avn evening in late Rebruary, and pring. How he knew that the sad now come when sap should stir in trees and life begin to move in the soil he could not have told himself, "In other years it would have been east enough. He could|® have pointed to the willow trees about' the house and shown the swelling buds, But there were no! more trees now.
He had cut them during the jitter winter when they were starving for food and he had. sold them one by one. might have pointed to the ped buds of his three peach trees and his six apricot trees th his father had planted in his day hat now. being at the height their Lime, ther bore a load of every sear, Bat these tre also' gone. I, other Sear than th jointed where "planted when the land was not needed for and where, when spring was summer, he planted the for tice was chief the nnd told nothing, There wus no wheat On for the flood had covered i after wheat'. should have planted, and it lay. there crack: Gnd like lay, but newly dried.
Well, on such a day as this, if he had his buffalo and his plouzk he bad always kad in other sears, he would have gone out and plough ed up that cracked sell. He ached to plough it up and make it look like a field again, yes, even though hho had not so much as one seed to mat in it. But he had no buffalo.
anyone had told him that he would eat his own water buffalo that ploughed the good land for} him, and year after year pulled the stone roller over the grain and threshed iz at harvest he would have called that man idiot. Yet it was what he had done. "He had aten his own water buffalo, he and his fand his parents and_his four children, they had all eaten the buffalo together.
Bat what else could they do on that dark. winter's day when the last of their store of grain was gone, when the trees were cut and old, when he had sold everything, even the little they had saved from the Mood, and. there was nothing the; and the the: left except the rafters of the house since. the water had covered even' the grass lands, and they had had te go far afickd to if ther even enough to cook its ines and flesh. On. that day tron he had seen the faces of his May when, heh though dead, on heard the me Slaughter dying, sich a despa his children and een is seized ion as made im like strength taid he never would; the kitchen knife and gone cut and he had aken ied hie own beast he di Gespair, he groaned, eas as though I To him it was the and. trousers; although they were only rags after all, and when he tals extensive campaign in that region, Japan tells the world that aw the cold earth against his old her troops are fighting the bandit, hh—well, that was sorrow But the people who fight hack it could not be help-them are not all bandits, Most of ore he had buried them, T understand, are honest and somehow, is old father and his good people who resent. the baby daughter and the little boy ese, Tule and domination, who had never be: flon''t Toret the Chinese boycott. It's an effective weapon that the That was what the winter's Chinese will wield to the bitter end. famine had' taken from them.
Te this. ea or. tio, would have taken them all except years longer it will have disastrous that in the great pools Lying ever effect on the whole of the financial where, which were left from the} rupture of Japan, flood, there were shrimps, and these 'The second danger T see is an they' had eaten raw and were still internal revolution in Japan, 'There eating, although they were all sick with a dysentery that would not get ave already signs of such an upriswell, "In the last day or so his wife ing. 'The suffering masses vill not endure their fate much longer, "It had' crawled out and dug a, few routing dandelions, But there! this military oveupation of Mau was no fuel and go they also were churia continues and along with i eaten raw. But the bitterness. wa: the boycott, the economic condition go from bad to worse, good after the - fast Japan wil fand this will be the sare way of the raw shrimps.
Yes, hastening an internal revolution, was coming.
sat on heavily, lookin, revolution "which may" ultimately over his land. "It he had his buffalo ruin Japan, back, if he had his plough that, they "And then the third danger, the burned for fuel, he could plough danger of second Russo-Japanese the land. Bat when he thought of war, Just now Russia is busily this az he did many times engaged in completing her five-year he felt Relplesa ax a lent tossed plan, For the time being she is the flood. The buffalo was hot ready nor willing to, do any gone also thing in checking Japan's axgtes: sion in Manchuria, But wait for What other had he'
Janothee teniyeats. And then she Tu the winter he ad felt Will be good and ready to. fight ul that at least the flood had Japan, fu my estimation, i€ Japan the house as it had persists inthe present policy houses. But now Sugression, Russia, backed by her ly it came to him that he Well-trained and" well-equipped fe grateful for nothing, no, troops, by. her immense natural ven Uiat he had his lite tort resources, by her powerful organisathe lite of his wite amd the tion and by her alliance wich, 400.
children, Ie felt. tears (000,000' Ghinese and 20,000,000 his eyes slowly as they Koreans, is goings to: win. T can' see ven come when he buried his
against mother and naw the earth fall its which all comforted losh, bared him that of today." the dangers if, she persists in her Way
day. But now he was comforted by Turning his attention to the tething. He muttered to hisnself.
Chinese situation, Dr, Eddy point= have mo seed to plant in the: land, 'There the land Ves! I could ing the xeavity" of the Japa that he ist a all ini qo-and claw it up with my hands menace. In fact he believes For had the seed and the land would there is every likelihood. for Japan bear. I know my' food land. But not only to retain the territory. T'have no seed and the land Manchuria but to extend her con-empty. Yes, even. though, trol into Jehol and later, possibly, comes, we must still st Amoy and North Fukien, apart o€ Shantang, Peking and' Tientsin. But, according to Dr. Eddy, Japan will not be able to hold for" long what she has or is going to get. Japan's immediate success in thes
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