Peiping. July 17.
No less than 8.370 applications were made during the month of June by: Chinese labourers wishing to go. to Inner Mongolia for seasonal work, the ug Labour Union of "Sia Min Hui" reports.
Among these, 3.931 applications were not granted, the men concerned having no certificates. "On the other: hand, the Peiping Labour Union states that 77,910 labourers returned to Peking from Mongolia during the same month, their labour contract having ably satisfactory and finally: they have it'up and the school was not opened.
When the Yellow River broke its dykes, some two years since, water' spread out toward th ie flooded the Hwai River districts farther living tu the Tow! have boon dre since the Yellow River coming In this direction refugees from the flooded areas have came to the neighbouring towns and villages to ask for food.
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