Lanchow, Apr. 22.
Kansu is now in the grip of plague, famine, flood, hailstorm, bandits. drought, hill-slides and other catas-trophies, a recent survey reveals. Districts west of the Hwangho in Kansu are said to be the most hard hit. Tu the face of a grievous famine, thousands of people died and it Is estimated that an average of from 400 to 1,000 people are being swept away dally by famine and logue. Multitudes of people are now fleeing from the west of the 'Hwangho to the pasture lands' of the Alashan League for safety.
The survey further shows that'17 districts in eastern and southern Kansu have been ravaged by flood and hailstorms, seven districts by bandits, three by windstorm and cone by mountain-slides. Monetary Tosses are estimated at $2,440,463, and the number of people affected at 430,673—Central News.
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