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Peking, Yesterday, Mr. Grover Clark, the special investigator for the Chinose In- ternational Famine Rellof Com mittee, has returned from a tour in Shanai and Shensi to see what reliefs have been accomplished in those provinces. '
In Shansi $3,000,000 were spent on relief last year, two-thirds of
which was raised within the pro vince. In Shens! $2,000,000 were exponded, of which sum a bare $100,000 was raised in the pro- vince. Missionaries declare that the money has been properly used. In spite of these large expendi- tures, conditions in some parts are horrible, 43 ап unusually severe winter has wiped out hun- dreds of thousande of people whose half-starved condition, the lack of Ares, and even of clothes, prevented fighting the cold. In some parts of Shensf the tempera- ture is 30 degrees below zero, the lowest for forty years,
The worst famine section, is the Wel River Valley in Shenal. One year ago the population here was 6,000,000 of whom 2,000,000 died during 1929, mostly from famine causes. It is estimated that a further 2,000,000 are doomed to die before June, as there will be no spring crops, because no grain has been planted this winter, and because transportation difficulties
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GENERAL B. BOOTH'S UNIQUE COINCIDENCE
LAST DAYS
WIDOW ISSUES TRAGIC STORY: TOUCHES OF PATHOS
BITTER ATTACKS
A remarkable heart-cry, in the shape of a pamphlet distributed to 1,000 fleld officers of the Salvation Army, has just been uttered by Mrs. Bramwell Booth, widow of General Bramwell Booth, says London message of December 11.
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She discloses, in this pamphlet, the tragedy of the General's last days, which ended in his deposition from leadership and death. Family squabbles, Internal dissensions and intrigue talk largely in the story she tells.
"For some time,"
saya Mrs. Booth, "the General had borne heavy responsibilities on behalf of his sister, Commander Eva Booth, who constantly resented bia authority and did not hesitate to let this be known in the United States.
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"In 1922 and 1923 American newspapers attacked the General with great bitterness, and at time did Commander Eva issue any and contradiction of these false misleading statements."
Campaign of Calamny From that time, 'Mrs. Booth al leges, there was waged a campaign of calumny behind the General's back, emanating from a Salvation ist source in the United States, with its chief representative in this country, a man who had been "near to the General's heart."
That his own relatives were at-
tacking him, says Mrs. Booth, was the General's, greatest pain, and preyed on his mind so much that
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TWO EMPRESSES AND TWO PRESIDENTS
AN IMPOSING QUARTETTE
The not too common sight of two Empress liners on either alde of one wharf at Kowloon was provided yes terday. Early in the morning, the Empress of Russia came in from Van- voucer vin Honolulu (being the second of the Hne to have called there),
upan and Shanghai, literally flowing with Chinese emigrants who have made good and come home to en-
over-
joy China New Year-with exchange altogether in their favour.
During the day, prior to the Russia's departure for Manila, the Empress of Canada come out of dock and also pro- ceeded alongside the wharf at Kowloon Godowns. The Canada was spick and an after overhaul while the Russia heavy weather when crossing the Paci showed signs of having encountered
fic.
One of the lifeboats was lowered on to the wharf almost immediately | after arrival,
To add to the imposing appearance of the Kowloon waterfront, two Pre- sident liners were also there yesterday. The American Mall Line President Jackson which left this morning for Shanghal, Japan, Honolulu and San Francisco, was at one wharf and, close by, was the Dollar Line President Taft, which came in during the afternoon from San Francisco, bound for Manila.
A further coincidence was the arrival yesterday of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Korea Maru, which also came in from San Francisco via usual ports and tied up to a harbour mooring.
eral of the deputation of his chief, officers from the High Council call. ing on him to retire la described by Mrs. Booth for the first time.
"Looking back" she says, "I l
wiped out, the animals having it led to his breakdown in health, most regret that the deputation was
been eaten. and the vehicles broken up for fuel.
Shocking Conditions
In many places con! is $118 a ton, and charcoal $190 per 1,000 catties. Food where obtainable, is more than ten times the normal price.
In one group of ten villages the investigators found one room with a roof, the rest of the houses having been demolished for the sake of the woodwork, for fuel. In the Wei River Valley there are 300,000 soldiers who have forced those who have food to give it up, but even they are now reduced to a ration of 12 oz. of-grain dally, which is only two ounces above the amount that the Relief Societies estimate sufficient to keep up bare life in a famine vic- tim.
The Investigators took a quan- tity of doughbuna to one vilinge of 800 people, who had not tasted grain for three months. The sight of the first food seen for months turned the starved, half- dazed, and moribund people into snarling wolves, whom the soldiers were forced to beat with whips, before the distribution of the food was possible.
The tragic meeting by the Gen-
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dition is believed to be primarily that there were no crops between the spring of 1927 and the au- tumn of 1929, the latter being barely 15 per cent. of the normal crop. Subsidiary causes are the burden of troops on the province, and civil disturbances.
The investigators believe there is no hope of saving the 2,000,000 people expected to die before June. It would probably cost ten times the purchase price of the grain to get it
Into the famine
area, if indeed transportation were possible.
allowed to see the General. His doctors were opposed to it, and it was only the fear that refusal would be misinterpreted that led us
to grant the request."
Crushing Blow
Twelve days after Commissioner Higgins dealt what Mrs. Booth describes as a "terrible and crash ing blow." The occasion was when the General was strongly advised) by his lawyers to seek the Courts' ruling on the matter of Army con- stitution.
Commissioner Higgins wrote to the General: "That you could be guilty of going to the Courts.... bas so stirred me and produced such indignation that.... I have consecrated myself to resist to the last drop of blood I have.... You have alienated the sympathy which was felt for you,"
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Mrs. Booth adds another touch pathos.
The irony of the situation is stated to be that given peace, $500,000 Gold would cut a tunne) through the mountains to tap the Yellow River and irrigate a mil- lion acres in the Wei River Val- ley, and banish for ever the fear brations of his father's birth, from
On the day of the centenary cele
of further famine.
which he was completely excluded, In parts of south-west Shanst General Bramwell Booth dedicated, conditions are still serious, but in his own home and under 'the Yen Hal Shan is constantly send- Salvation Army flag that had been ing relief grain and seed grain, round the world with him his The Investigators found it ab- youngest grandchild Bramwell solutely impossible to reach Kan-William Booth-to the service of su, owing to the lack of transporthe Salvation Army, from the tation facilities, apart from walk-leadership of which he had just
been deposed.
Doomed to. Die The cause of the present con- ing-Reuter.
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