China's famine situation was a topic of discussion to-day at a round table meeting of the Institute of Politics, as part of a general disecassion' on Far Eastern affairs.
Mr. Grover Clark, former editor of the "Peking Leader" and more recently associated with the China International Famine Relief Com-ion, estimated that Chinese famine deaths within the past seven years equalled deaths from all other causes, Famine as found in China, he proved one of the groat-
ed mankind. Millions of people ties which has ever affctwithout resources are doomed to perish unless they receive outside help of some kind.
Mr, George Sokolsky, editor of the' "Far Eactern Review" Shanghai, - challenged Mr. Clark's statements and insisted that which is given merely prolongs war in China. The National Government at Nanking, he said, does rare this Mr. Chirk replied that desire such donations.
the proof that Nanking wants, such relief consists in the fact that free transportation for such grain supplied by the Chinese National Government Railways.—United Press.
As hundreds of Chinese labourers in Japan have recently been sent back to China by order of the Japanese Government, the Nanking Foreign Office will lodge a strong protest with MIN, _Shigemitsn, the Japanese Charge @'Affaires in China, concern - this matter says the native press,
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