'To deal with this alarming situation, a committee hax been organized fu" Chungking by the International Famine Relief "Commission. Arnaut the' plans put forward for the reli the famine-sucken populations {ne whereby farm labourers, will employed on Ube construction of the Ghunghing-Chengus Railway, for the earthwork and for. carrying soft Tock, and some of the hard Fock to Used in the construction work.
this. plan materializes, several million dollars will be available. for the relief of the farming. population Hie hoped also to. ulllize farmers Jon the construction of the. new Wansien-Chengta Highway. which Mill also" provide a valuable means relict" The salt "administration fre planning to spend $800 000 dollars highway construction, in which farmers would be employed.
'The dificult which are being faced' by the provincial authorities coping with" this unprecedented sluatlon may be gauged. from. the fact that!" $3,000000 worth of Fee. consigned. to Chungking in order 40 ring' down the price of Flee in the Aisttes, could not be conveyed to its destination because of the tow level of the Yangtze River, caused by the "Phe Famine Relief Commission hope to send experienced workers 08 favisors into the stricken areas, 9s the foreigners at present in these reas are not experienced in relief work of thie kinds
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