Hupeh Hard Hit: Aid From Government Asked an omeiat emadlankow, Aue 22 8 official emmuniqué to-day from Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang's. hea quarters at Wuchang states that the Marshal hae despatched a. telegram to General Chiang Kai-shek, asking for immediate relief measures to be taken in connection with the drought situation in this province, particular ly in the nine hsiens in eastern and southern Hupeh, which have just been rid of the bandit menace.
Only by a three-year moratorium, the resolution declared, can the burdens of the population be light-joned to the extent necessary for them to rehabilitate their finances, find some new means of earning a livelihood and improve conditions to level at which they will be able to adjust the national, prefectural and other kinds of taxes now in arrears.
It is thought likely that the action taken by the Nagano Assembly will cause rapid repercussions in other The Generalissimo, it is under stood. has requested General Chang Chun, the Hupeh Chairman, who is at present at Kuling, to raise the sum of $1,000,000 from Hupeh to meet this urgent demand.
Dr. H. H. Kung, the Finance Minister, who was unable to appropriate any money from the Central Trea~ sury, will organize a bureau for the transportation and selling of foodstuffs in order to distribute the food at a reasonable price throughout the distressed areas, 'A tragic sight was witnessed when the first batch of drought-stricken refugees, from along the Wuchang-'Changsha section of the Canton-Hankow Railway, arrived in Wuchang.
Over one thousand peasanto and farmers, rendered destitute on ace count of the failure of their first crop, have been trudging their way to the city from Pucht in the hope
purpose of petitioning the Govern-of securing some food, also for the ment for relief—Reuter, The Lahar-Harbin Railway will formally be inaugurated and traffic opened on September 1. Floods near Harbin delayed construction work on the line for several months.~ United Press.
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