One Dollar Will Feed Refugee for One Month: Many Sufferers Facing Death Safe and dry in Shanghai and knowing little more about floods than what has been experienced in wading, across the Bund on a stormy Jumping over the inundated areas of Nanking Road, caught in 'a sudden shower, it is not surprising that most Shanghailanders. do not realise the critical conditions in the seriously flooded areas of the Yangtze and the Yellow River valleys, Cold-blooded Agures, statistics, comparisons, and averages are enlightening but tremely uninteresting to the average reader. What China needs at this moment is action; words are empty. And it must be' race against time it the flood and famine refugees are to be protected from the tragic end which winter threatens to bring.
Most people have not had the opportunity to see some of the misery which the refugees have to endure and, therefore, cannot appreciate the chance offered to alleviate their sufferings; in fact, many do not realise the extent of the flooded regions, A. glance at the map will show that ie territory of the upper Yang-zo, and the Yellow river valleys embraces eight provinces, the greatest sufferers being Shantung, Hupeh, Honan, Hunan and Kiangsi,' The loss of lives cannot yot be estimated.
Could, you, with a little imagination, visualize a village entirely' covered with water, no landmark other than the top of 'a grove of trees standing up bravely to prove its existence; and the log of a chair or perhaps 'a window casing floating aimlessly "by. to denote a former habitation? Someone with an admie~ able sense of humour decided that in the future the only safe foundation for a building was the top of a tree and proceeded to lay the floor of his tree-house!
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