The Archive · 1936

FLOODED AREAS

Grim Realities To the Editor of the forrit-Cuiwa Danny News"

Sm—So many people in Shanghai do not yet realize what misery is now 'aMicting the flooded areas that I wish to draw special attention to the following extracts from a report. yeelved by the International Famine Relief Commission, Peiping, from Miss Alice B. Murphy of the "Amerlcan Board Mission. The report is dated January 0, Miss Murphy writes:

Dr. George Wilder and t have eeently returned from Lintsing and hie has. asked me. to write Fegarding. some of the things "we earned, whic thers, o¢ conditions in that region, "We. were investigating, primarily, our gwn field there, an rea, parily in. Shanting and. partly Hope, tneluding over 3.500 villages, twelve. "counties, which with the ity of Lintsing ana the omer tities, means a. population of abo.ot speak of hat

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