Need. for. Aid Ends in Half Stricken District While rains have come in part of the famine area, other sections till are. without rain, according to: Feports received by the China Tr ternational Famine Relief Commis sion, This means that, in these dry areas, it will be impossible to: get.in crops in-time to mature before the end of the growing season, even if good rains should come at once, with the consequence of not only continuing famine conditions at least until spring crops, can ripen next year, but also a steadily increasing severity of need.
In the areas where rains have come in time to give reasonable assurance of at least partial crops autumn, the present indica jons are that the need for relief will be over in another couple of months. In parts the need already has ended; in other parts, some farther assistance until the' ripening of the autumn crops will be required. The present crop situa lows: tion can be summarized as fol-
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