Details of the Distributions in Charhar and Shensi Well over the equivalent of feeding 35,000 people for a month, at the rate of 20 catties per person per month, has been done in the way of relief work form the spring' to August of this year, with 500, tons of grain sent by the China In-counties of Chahar lying northward from Kalgan. The system has been to issue tickets for 1,400 people in each hsien, the most needy of the famine victims being selected in each case. The grain has been given out against these tickets, Actually a good many more than 1,400 have been helped in each' district... The distribution has been' based largely on families in need. rather than Individuals, For each family of more than three persons, two tickets have been issued, instead, of one per person in the' family. Speaking of the actual results of this relief, the travelling secretary of the Chahar committee of the DERE. says:—"The writer can testify to the far-reaching effect of these distributions by visits to outlying villages, sometimes over 100 li from the distributing centres, each having sent according to the: density of the population and extent of distress its allotment of needy.
In addition to grain for relief money was advanced in the form of loans with which the farmers in the seriously affected areas could buy seed to plant, so that they might] have a crop this autumn, such grain as they had kept for seed having been eaten up long ago. These loans were issued of the distri Relief Bureau. The money was distributed to farmers at from §4 to $10 each. In most cases there jas the additional guarantee of the village elder. The farmers gave the DERE. receipts for the money y Received, the terms of the loan being repayment within three months. of harvest. The total thus loaned was $20,000.
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