'Tragedy' of Harvest Which Is Near to Ripening Should scheme No. 2 recommend-Jed. by your Council be adopted by.
Reporting on famine conditions [You the expense involved. will. apin Anhui, the Rev. W. D. Bostick, of Pochow, to whom the - China' Council recognises that an expendi-Foreign Famine Relief Committee ture of this nature should. not "be recently made a grant of $10,595, the subject of " special levy on the! paints a picture of hope as the ratepayers it is agreed on principal Crops are' ripening but. indicates conditions are stilt serious in other that the approor nual general meeting for road con-parts, Hruction should. not be. made use Tu his report, Mr, Bostick states: fof in this connection, and with a "Regarding needs, this field had been set down as second class, Our view to meeting the' sum involved proposes that this should be. spread investigators have carefully di buted. first, second and" third bet a, period of years thereby! ensuring that the burden of taxation these last few Swill not fall too. heavily days, however, there has been all into first ratepayers in any members. of the finance com te puts the number of sufferers in this one have formulated 'a scheme on. the principal outlined above county' at 400,000 one half of whom fave received' nothing, and there is The Director then referred his audience to the highest water levels ect of let of Hankow from 1865 to 1931 and caring /drew attention to the years in which. starving. children in four centres the river rose above Bund level. He Within the city. These have. been mentioned that it not infrequently happened the occurrence wonderfully transformed by their daily rations of six bowls of por: high water in one year was accompanied by nation in the Fides. The thre, porridge, hitches Seconded by Mr. Owen Warren, the chairman proposed "That this Jextraordinary meeting of ratepayers authorises the Council to proceed. with the erection of a retaining wall along the Bund in this district, and to devise ways and means be financing the project."
There being no opposition, the resolution was put, to the meet Jand passed unanimously. This the wall as per scheme!
be proceeded with, and wil not be so unsightly, as' the wall already erected in the S- A. D. No.
The conerete boards wilt in recess behind the tow wal, which will serve a useful purpose dur the usual hie ner which somes about one foot. If the water rea jimes covers the bund path
jehes to the top of this permanent wall, the boards will be used, and as they will be placed both at the front and back of the concrete slot.
posts, mud will be used. to. fil the space' between them, and thus make it absolutely watertight. A of conjectures have been raised regarding the (possibility of the water breaking up through the roads fand thus doing more damage. than if the water were simply allowed to lenter the area without obstruction, Opinion is divided but engineers as. sert that, with pumps taking off the surface water, such a thing cannot happen. twenty thousand people.
""Bunds have come all too slowly, and, with a few "exceptions, "18 Gribiets, so it has been" necessary to canvass some of the territory a Second time. We have just returned from such a district. The holders of some 4,000 tickets received only $0343. The distribution took place finely' It south of Pochow. We saw the fuest wheat. we have seen Ching, Hundreds of mow of "crops full bloom gave the wheat felde'a variegated appearance, The sight both "ladderied and saddened our eyes, The eating of bark of trees, Faves, weeds, and. the poor women trying in vain to beat "the husks from the green. wheat was a most distressing sight, 'There is but a small acreage of the bearded wheat Which "ripens early, and. those Fields' have been stripped of grain. Thousands of the people "have Marvation written large on their faces. The cries of men, wom land children for bread is most pit: fal. These last 20 days till harvest fare the most distressful. We are very grateful for all relief received, ind appeal for further help imme:
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