"Hilly lands in Western Honan and Central Shensi are very dry with no promise of crop for the autumn, On the southern border of Shensi and down almost to the edge of the Chengtu plain in Szechwan, only the lowest lands either had a crop or were planted for a fall crop," reports Dr. J. E. Baker, Executive Secretary of the China International Famine Relief Commission, who is now in Chungking conducting a labour relief project.
Dr. Baker left for Szechuen on May 24 via Lunghai Railway with plans to travel from Paoki (Shensi) to Chengtu by bus, The immediate motive of his trip was to help to organize the labour relief project in connection with the building of the First Section of. the embankment of the Chengtu-Chungking Railway. It may be recalled here that the DERE. entered into an agreement in April with the West China Development Corporation, builders of the railway, whereby preference will be given famine labourers for the building of the embankment, Dr. Bakers arrival in Szechuen Suspected Plainclothesmen
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