Meanwhile, in Peiping itself the poorer families have out down from three meals to one meal daily. The effect of this starvation diet has not yet made itself felt, Wait a month or to," a fore missionary in Peiping told Reuter: correspondent, "and you will sce. the results of' this under-nourishment on the population. Tt ly bad enough in Peiping, God knows what it can a bbe like in Foreign jons and charitable bodies in Peiping are doing bervie work in the city, but they are able touch Jess thin five per cent, of its population of a million and a halt. "They stand helpless, as do the Peiping "Provisional Government" and the local authorities throughout the country districts, before a mounting toll of human suffering and disaster for which there appears to' bbe_no solution in sight.
Somehow or other, the country folk will have to live without gather ing in a fresh crop until September, Migrations are being made from some districts. The position ts made more desperate due to the fact that the peasants have no reserves of foodstuffs, these having been commandeered cither by the Chinese verillas, who live off the country side, oF' by the Japanese forces, Thus war and last year's extensi Moods have brought hundreds of thousands {o the brink of anott er major tragedy, Retlet im Sight The acute food situation in North Ching is expected to be relieved huge "quanti 'Japan and Manchuria, 'No' less than 3,287,000 Uags of flour are expected to be available he North Chi
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