(Continued from page 37) famine relief job. During February from 90,000 to 35,000 labourers were working, most of them earning fair Wages. Distributed as they were within a relatively small area the pro-Verbisl ant hill' seemed almost an empty affair. A feature of the job is! the great amount of slone which is being transported from quarrying routes to Ures, a traveller recently places along the Peiping-Hankow made the journey from the capital t Railway, first 180 miles by rail to the back to Verkne-Udinsk by motor cai Lanfeng railway station near Kaifeng. and sledge, and although it was not a!
From there six miles overland down comfortable journey by standards, yet it was an experience he modern! to the river bank; contraption which will carry stone; light railway, was glad he did not miss. whee! barrows, carts, mules: and had Intended to fly back, but t! donkeys. Then over on to boats to be due to the fact that the Gying feld transported the 70 miles downstream was snowed under and his travelling to the breach closure place—600 large. were negotiating to convert the island G. M. Into a" penal settlement.
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