is well known fact that many fof China's millions ive just on the Border tine. of starvation, "Under normal conditions they manage to exist but the pressure of population {so great that the failure of a crop, whether from insects, floods Grought, heralds the swift approach ff that dread spectra, starvation, with all is accompanying horrors of suffering, disease and mental and moral While It is true that conditions in this area are not yet suMeiently bad warrant the distribution organized relief, nevertheless, the outlook is far from hopeful." The operation of the economic. law of supply and demand Is a fairly reliable Barometer of a country's food "te-sources.
Tice, the staff of lite to the Chinese, hag reached the record high price of 2200 cash a catty with every" indieation of further advances. There is 4 marked increase in the export of Flee to areas east and south where the suffering is more acute, "This, with the likelihood of a crop failure, aggravating an already too precarious existence.
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