Hankow, July 24.
'The shortage of water is causing much trouble. Two groups of] niarket gardeners who work the' land opposite the Chinese Race] Club quarelied about the amount of water which each group was to draw from a pond.
'A score or mote men, armed with mattocks, engaged in the resultant, fight and a posse of armed police; was needed before quiet could be restored.
The supply of fresh vegetables! fon the market is quite inadequate, for the gardens round Hankow are not yielding much and no supplies fare coming down the line. The: prospect for the harvest in the country districts is decidedly poor. eaid have been suffering, but no famine.
"Military depredations and bandi-causes of famine growing also is considerable factor. These factors lexist to-day, just as they did in 1926 and earlier, If there is an-
Jother famine Shensi this winter, these factors. must be given the principal blame. the 4 campaign, just as the American Red 'Cross' commissions reported last ear.
is certainly significant that leven at the height of the famine in Shensi last winter, the famine area Idid not. include the entire province, but-was restricted to a narrow belt running east and west through the middle of the province, and extending somewhat to the north of this belt.
"The famine area corresponded almost exactly to the main billet areas and lines of march of the and advanejing to the civil wars in the east."—United Press.
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