1,500,000 People to Care for: Bark of Trees and Husks of Grain to Eat: Children Sold for $3 Apiece The following extracts from a letter from the famine area 7, throw a vivid light on conditions and the diffeulty of. meeting them. us in Fu Ping roves the 1 Famine Relief mach were, congilons, ted. were At first_they estimated When we began, people Nat they. could get $20,000 from were cating bark of trees, old a nationed drive, and perhaps $17, and the husks of buekwhgat, /000,000 from-other sources in China, fall crops were {iat snd $1,000,000 from Mission source failure, as large quantities of sand As to Christian China, seems to were carried over them by the flood, me that the national Christian burying the land and making cran Council is the logical one to make this spring and fall also an imjan appeal. The fact, that need is lity. Now the conditions in mostly ina Presbyterian field does moter valleys of the "hsien" show not make it alien to other denomiactual starvation will scon be upon nations. Three of our Presbyterian them. "Some have already died, Missions have sent contributions un-'Some are lying in exhaustion on the solicited but they represent only one bed or floor, too far gone to be instation, in each case, Tu our own terested in asking for help, province the cos of food is now some plices small boys have been Uhigher than in the famine year four sold for three dollars apiece to the years ago, so we feel that if our Wu T'ai Shan Monastery to grow own people keep their heads above up as Buddhist monks. Some have Water, so to speak, we cannot very sold their wives to more prosperous. well expect much more of them, families. Mr. Mather thinks that] Protestants have been slower that Gold $10,000 would be needed to carry the county through the wine ter, and that afterward they should be moved to some colony such as Chang. Ts in, Manchuria, or Feng Yuchsiang's in Suiyaan, Jewont Hsinan and Hsiung Appeals are coming from other
hsien are still flooded by rivers which have burst the dykes, and these breaks are not repaired ant we have rains next summer, even in crinal amounts, worse suffering: than that of this year will result, Catholics te respond to this need, Already a gift from the Pope of several tous of thousand Tira hus been given out in county. None comes within our field lof ubser vation, Buddhists have also sent help,
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