To the Editor of the "Nonra-Cuiwa Daty News."
Sin,—According to a telegraphic report sent from Sianfu, Shensi, by the Shensi Famine Relief Committee to local Chinese newspapers last week, the number of people who die of famine in Sianfu is from sixty to eighty per day. No less than 2,500,000 people of Shensi nee, since the drought of 1927, starvation and exposure. The number' of women and girls that have been sold totals some 200,000. The appalling spectacles of broken families, of men and women who either commit suicide in despair or die of starvation, are vividly described in the same telegram. The horrible calamity in Shensi is, indeed, unparalleled in the modern Phistory of China, The work of several Chinese philanthropic associations has been carried out on a small scale, and the catastrophe has scarcely been abated. The recent warfare and the difficulty of communication have prevented any further effort on the part of almsman to reach that province. According to the report, it is impossible to open congee stations beyond Hsuchow, Kiangsu, which has now become an important headquarters of relief work. One can easily imagine that a great majority the starving people die in their Journey before they can reach what they consider to be "the land of milk and honey."
On behalf of the hunger-stricken brethren of Shensi province, the writer ventures to beseech the good readers of this paper to turn their attention for a moment to the famine situation in the northwest. May those individuals and organizations, Chinese or foreign, that give a helping hand to the relief work, be thrice blessed!
Tam, ete,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.