Country people come freely with fuel or farm products. A few primary schools have opened wider strict supervision. Since December more than 1,000 families and. indi duals, making a larger total, "have been helped with money, clothing or wheat by American missionaries a¢ting for a Shanghai advisory committee and other philanthropic agencies. The aged. infirm, war-widows and war-orphans are numerous. With winter passed and summer coming the problem of bare existence is less distressing but not yet solved.
Spring farm products are good, silk culture possible and rice can be planted so'that if mi other millions will survive. way services are prompt and the Chinese postal service functions very much 9s" usual.
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