As the weather grows colder day by day, suffering becomes more intense. Just as the bandit situation seemed to be improving and the people were beginning to have a asto of real quiet, with an opportunity to improve their condition, this new calamity" befell them. Their helplessness in face of flood ravages should certainly move the hearts of all who have it in their power to help.
"There Is one side which many do not understand at all. With this whole section faced with an engineer-problem second to none, with Joficiais and the people of one area opposed to those of another with mutual recriminations and ill feeling, fand often open fighting and bloodshed, because one side thinks, the other is building a dyke or doing something which would injure their property or endanger their leves, it strange that some of China's best engineering talent has not been sent here posthaste, To the eye of the common man, not particularly versed Ju engineering, it looks Uke some thing might have been done most of this
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