"Is the Yellow River returning to fits old home?" they ask. They are wonderful people—these farmers. '50 patient so cheerful, #0 resource: ful. visited one market town, of 5,000 people, where nine out of ten houses were dissolved by water. As we went from home. in a little boat, the ref-lugees invited us to take a meal with them, or at least a cup of tea, They were living on little platforms made out of the ruins of thelt homes.
The magistrates of the various Hsiens along this 400 miles of new waterway, did their best in building hundreds of miles of low dykes. 'Those I have seen, however, proved to be of very little, if any value Obviously, a flood of this magnitude cannot be controlled locally, separate units working individually' without National contro! or a national survey.
"The International" Famine Rellet Commission is rendering gallant ser-wice, with their limited resources and in giving relief, they are making every dollar count. 1 met one of their hishest representatives, travel-Ting third-class and sitting up on all night trains. "If the Government off-dals ioner it, they would probat give him a pass for doing such public welfare work.
China is used to floods, but this generation never saw such of flood. We have to so back 83 years, when the Yellow River last changed its to find a parallel to this Tuoushwos of people are facing starvation in the Kuehih district which is suffering from one of the most severe droughts in the history of Honan province, according to. 2 "The second wheat
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