To "The Australian Quarterly, the organ of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Dr. K. nul, who will be shortly returning to Shanghai after an extended {our in Australia, expresses gratifeation selling moderation" I tions with China. "Japan," says Dr. Mul, "does not expect or a moment to be the sole arbitrator in the East What Japan proposes to China These admirable sentiments accord closely with pronouncements made by Mr. Naotake Sale. They seem to bbe less compatible with Dr. Inul's cursory review of recent events, in [China in the main body of the article of which they form the peroration. Dr. Tnui naturally endeavours to put Japanese actions in the most favour fable light since he is obviously not attempting to make an objective presentation of his theme, So. the Shantung question is vaguely dismiss. ed as an example of China's inveterate habit of playing one power Joft against the other. No mention of the Twenty-one Demands is made. In accumulating evidence to justify his views he asserts that foreign concessions have remained 2 the landmarks and price of their indy "indeed Dr. Mui personally thinks the Lytton Report "a splendid document"—an Interesting revelation which is impleading: mediately discounted by this special
wis ears Uae oe ate polit namely' the way in' which int differs from other rs of that the statis quo ante i net her" ceseue. it "ciently "Seuogmines Famines it has been said often come at the wrong moment, in the sense that they do not take into acx count the convenience of charitably fnelined people, So it may often be that an appeal for assistance to the victims of distress arouses some fee! ing of irritation. Organizers of relief now this to their cost, but in conformity with their appreciation of the desperate needs of the causes which they champion. they venture persist. These remarks apply for~ elbly tothe representations which Father Jaequinol, whose name is a guarantee of the' genuineness of any appeal, is now making on bel the Chinese Foreign Famine Rel Committee's efforts to mitigate the severity of the visitation now aMiet= ing Kansu, The death roll of victims from starvation in that province is, authoritatively stated to be woefully heavy, The drought has dried up the fields. There has been no rain for six months. "Moreover Kansu hat deen subjected to the ravages of marauding bands who, whether they are to be labelled freebooters Communists, have made no. distine= tion in plundering peasants, farmers and landlords alike. They were ac~ tually" In control of the province from August 1985 19 November 1035. They returned in August last year and remained until April of this year when they departed with the apparent conviction that their wholesale plundering and pillaging combined with the drought had robbed the countryside of everything worth ac-Quisition. Kansu's troubles have not ended there. 'The reign of banditry (or Communism) has denuded it of young men who have been forced Teave' the fields to put up some sistance to the marauders. Tt is asserted that the country haa been left bare as if It had been visited by a Plague of locusts. Disease is ramp '4nt-among the victims of this. terible famine. Many of them are reduced to eating the bark of trees and even mud cakes for preservation of a miserable existence. Children—and especially daughters—are being, Sold og a.grim expedient to save them and their parents from. dying of starvation. Dwellings: have tumbled down and the plight of wretchedness {is complete, The programme of nssistance organized" by the Chinese Foreign Famine Relief Committee (97 Jinkee Ra. Shanghai) has" been ovised to provide seeds so that the people of Kensu may once more hope for crops. It is intended to send provisions and food, as well. as cloth~ Jing and. medicines: The Committee as to prepare for_an_ exceptionally hard winter not the least dimeulty being the solution of the cattle problem, Fortunately cattle can still be bought into those areas of the rovinee which have so far escaped devastation but funds are not in" foxhaustible to put it mildly. Already gallant efforts to cope with Kansu's (avail have thrown an undue burden on the Committee's exchequer and Father Jacquinot therefore appeals for generous contributions to. its fund in the form of donations prompt= sent to it at 07 Jinkee Road. When it is added that in, Lanchow alone there are between 10,000 and 20,000 people suffering from starvation, that Michien reports nearly 25060, Taochow 10,000, Changhien 20,000, Lunusi, between 30,000" and 40,000, "Tsinchow-Pingliang at Yeast 100,000, Kulang 10,000 to 20,000, ti wei between 20.000 and 30,000. "Kanchow from 100,000 to 200,000 and. Kaotal 10,000, the stupendous task which the Committee has undertaken willie appreciated. That appreciation will surely move the springs of charitable effort for the replenishment. of its funds,. however inconvenient the moment may be. The cry of over half a million men and women in the throes of dire penury and want cannot surely be heard with indifter-
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