Deeds Society here in Tachienlu is buying up immense stocks of corn-meal and selling it at a greatly re-Jduced price, enabling the poor Com-Imunist. refugees 10 get at least one catty of corn meal per day. There is a continual mob round the door of the Good Deeds Society and 1 gather very few are turned away without something to eat, Tachiertlu occupies a peculiar geographical position. Stretching towards the east les China and away to the west Tibet. China produces rice and [Tibet provides tsamba, but between the two countries rise enormous ranges of high snow-covered moun-{tains that produce very little apart from cold and ice. On the lower slopes, however, of the mountain ranges a considerable amount of corn grown but not sufficient to meet the local demand, "Rice is, therefore, carried in from China and tsamba from Tibet. Szechuen has suffered somewhat from famine and Sikang has been ravished by Communists, "Block the roads east_and west leading Into Tchienlu and one week would be sufficient to see the inhabitants on the verge of starvation. Food therefore must be carried in" and carried "in sufcient quantity to keep the city in existence fang' on the map.
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