An Eyewitness' Impressions the Editor of the "Nontu-Cuina Day News."
Sin—By courtesy of Doctor Boris and Doctor Byes 1 was te jay. given. transport. and oppor tunity to visit a collection of about 2.000" refugees camped under. mats fon the last of the high ground on Fouth aide of the Han, ye mile the Waterworks, 0 mouth-—nearly" opposite
othe impressions T received may interest you and are ap follows!—
(2) Site: The ground forma an excellent site for the housing of at east 3,000 persons if their shelters fare properly arranged and if tlon'is under oontd. "At present the shelters line the sides and the tracks. Disposal of garbage should be easy by trenching.
(2) No water safe to. crink without boiling is to be Bad.
(3) The people are not permitted tocome further "down Fiver by military guard.
(4) Those who came first and encamped near the. river are the fest off; they: mostly seem to have sampans and there are a Zew sma Places selling food, Those behind a worse and are really short of food.
They seemed to me to be decent folk just quietly dying of hunger.
Many have lost their breadwinner and have a mat and tome raga and that is all (8) Dead are thrown in mats a litle way off and. some few are cetined and earth thrown over.
(6) In many "buts" are dying and. newly. dead. "One hears a tineaning from the women and. one! heed hardly Took to see what has} come about.
(1) Access: No body of persons in China should be easier to get at: There is deep water almost to their oer.
Without food and that soon these people are doomed to die—at least three-quarters of them.
discourages the Red-Crost workers to feel that all their efforts fo for little for what $s the use Fredicine to those whose veal disorder is under-nutrition?
There is a flour mill seress the an river, which is not wide here.
Cannot the local charity organigations arrange quickly that, these people receive "food daily? Thi Rood has been with us for six weeks land the feeling arrangements should have been perfected by this time, Hospitals, Woy, surely? But Awoxo passengers on the Dollar pression as "utterly impracticable"
Tam sorry, that such an ex, Mu, Carlos Becerra has been apbrier President Wilson, ted has found its way into the presss pointed Chilean Consul-General for} Shanghai on Fri d lay for the United
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