According to arrivals from eastern Honan, several tens of the villages at Kaocheng and Minchuan' have [become desolate, as most of the farm for have left to seek food elsewhere, Nearly all houses are empty and good farms are not cultivated. At [Fengchiu and Changyuan the people are suffering from famine and war. The rice costs $30.for per catty, and the farmers are eating the young wheat shoots. Many people, are said to-have starved to death, With the severe fighting having taken place.in northern Honan, une dreds and thousands of farmers fled into the Taihang Mountains. In response to an-appeal by a. special commissioner, the Provincial Gavernment has adopted, ax resolution, to appropriate $400,000. to relieve, these people.
In addition to. $60,000, alloted "vy the" Executive Yuan, for" famine relict in the province, it fs Just learn ed that. $40,008 more has been approof priated for the Tu the ith Administrative Section convict named Cheng Pao-chi, recently sold all his property for $400, fand contributed the sum to the ational salvation funds. Each Kuomintang member is requested to contribute a pair of shoes for sollers at the front and up to the present, over 10,000 of shoes have been received. National Sal~ ti being sold and are bought by, people each month.
merchants eontcbuted a guerilla units, Aghti Fear in northern Honan, under the command of Gen, Shih 'Vu-san, In order {0 carry out the political' and propaganda work, Gen. Shih sent one of his offers here to recruit Jabout' 100 students, including both sexes. The young workers have: left for northern Honan, crossing the Yerlow River at Mengtsin.
Gen. Chiang Kai-shek Hankow, May 17.
The allegation made in Shanghat yesterday that General Chiang ale Shek hed "fled" to Chungking by plane appears to have been based lon, incorrect information, "here is also no foundation in fact for the allegation that General Chiang ie in crftigal health and being constantly attended by a nurse.
"The Generalissimo is at present in Hankow, and is in satisfactory health, 'After an extended tour' of the Langhal and Peiping-Hankow raile way fronts, he" presided at the memorial meeting at, the Kuomintang Conference Shanghai, May 19.
Chinese delegates to the Inter~ national Labour Conference satied in the s, Conte Biancamano yesterday morning, being seen off by a group lof friends at the Customs, Jetty, Mr. [Ling Kong-hou, general steretary of the Chinese Banks Association, will represent the employers at the sessions, He was accompanied. by Me. P. K, Chu and Dr. Paollu' Dal, who will' serve as his' adviser and secretary respectively. Mr, Ling, is also to attend the International Red ross Conference to be convened in
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