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WHY FARMERS BECOME BANDITS.
GHASTLY STORIES OF SUFFERING FROM SHENSI.
PEPING. January -Four million people, two-thirds of the total population of the densely-settled central portions of Shenai province, will be dead by next June from starvation er disease chiefly due to insufficient food, Grover Clark, an American newspaperman, former editor of the Peping Leader, in- formed this correspondent upon his extensive trip
return from дл through Shansi and Shenai.
Two million mes, women and children already have died during the past year, and another two million will die before next June, Mr. Clark predicted. He does not feel that there is any possible hope of saving these people from their doom
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These bandits are not the ordinary professional robbers, but are the On his travels, Mr. Clark found more energetic farmers and towns-the usual harrowing scenes in people, who, cannot earn an honest famine, country. Fathers knelt be living, and therefore subsist by fore him, begging him to take their robbing their neighbours. The ban-children as gifts, because they were dits themselves are, generally half-starving. He passed through vil starved.
lages which did not have a single Mr. Clark found that officials in inhabitant still alive. Shensi are generally indifferent to people tearing down their houses the sufferings of the people. They to sell the timbers for food. are too much engrossed in the wars Mr. Clark found families who. between the Kuominchun and Gov- were well-to-do two years ago in a ernment troops to devote much at-starving ccndition now, Rich and, tention to anything else. Army poor alikő have suffered. The sol officers cannot find enough food for diers and bandits have reduced al- their soldiers, so leave the people to most everybody in Shensi to a com- their own resources.
mon level.
During the past year, Mr. Clark found, about two million dollars silver has been spent for famine re- lief in Shensi." Of this, $1,600,000 came from the sale of Nanking's
Indifference to Death.
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In Sianfu, the capital of Shenai, Mr. Clark found that the cost of wood and charcoal is prohibitive, A pound of wood cost one-third as. relief bonds. Another much as a pound of meat. Meat is $300,000 came as gifts from outside much cheaper than in Peping be provinces, and only $100,000 cause cause the people are killing their from the Shcasi Government and animals because they cannot feed people.
them...
Natural causes have combined with the indifference of officials and the collapse of communications infamine cidental to civil wars in creating the worst famine in-modern times in Shensi province, Mr. Clark said. There have been five successive crop failures in central Shensi, and the winter weather this year has been the most severe on record. Mission-
aries who have lived 40 years in the province told Mr. Clark, that the weather this year is the worst in their experience.
This contrasts with the situation
A Hopeless Task.
A
The people in Shensi, of all in Shanai, to the north, where Yenases, are "entirely without hope. Hai Shan has made serious efforts Mr. Clark said. They are apathetic, to control the famine. The famine from lack of food, and face almost is not so severe in Shansi, but the certain death with surprising in- Government itself has contributed difference. Missionaries living is million dollars, and the people of Shensi are making frantic efforts to But there has been no serious at the province another million. 10.00 ..only)
tempt to deal with the crisis. third million has come from famine
save some of the people, but are on Shemsi has been controlled by Mar-relief bonds.
the verge of norvaus prestration shal Feng Yu Hsiang's troops,
from the daily sights which meet which are themselves in a half-
their eyes. starved condition. Mr. Clark found Mr. Clark went to Shenai to dis- 300,000 Kuominchun soldiers in cen cover what could be done in faming tral Shensi, most of them youths of relief. He came back convinced An appeal to motorists not to 1 or 17 years. East autumn they that the task is hopeless. The rail-follow hounds by car has been issued were receiving a ration of 20 ounces
ways are being used almost entire by Mr. Douglas Benson, the master of millet a day. Recently this ly for military purposes, he said, of the Old Surrey and Burstow ration has been reducted to 12 and while Shensi itself has no rail- Hunt. "Many hunts," he said, ounces, which is just above the bare ways, the lines in Shansi andare completely spoiled on account subsistence level.
Honan would have to be used in of car drivers endeavouring to keep any large-scale relief plan. This in touch with hounds and heading does not appear possible.
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Stealing by Starving Soldiers.
As a result, these youthful soldiers are more like wolves than like human beinga, Mr. Clark said, and perhaps naturally, steal all the food they can get...
The entire country is over-run with bandits, and the soldiers do little to check them, Mr. Clark said.
eff foxes. It may not be generally known that petrol vapour blowing The situation is the more tragic, across the fields completely obliter Mr. Clark said, because there isates the scent of the foxes: This enough grain in China to feed all appeal is only being made out of these people if it could be got to of the riding members of the hunt." sheer necessity and in the interests
them. But motor-cars are the only Mr. Benson adds that if the appeal means of transportation of large is unsuccessful the continuance, of amounts of grain, and these are not disastrous effects on sport in that the annoyance will certainly have available.
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Diary of Coming Events,
To-day.
(January 28.)
Golf: China New Year meeting, Fanling.
Farewell Reception Government Hoase, 0.30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "Hollywood Revue."
World Theatre: "The Flaming! Forest."
Star Theatre: Underworld."
Special Tea Dancès: Hong Kong Repulse Bay Hotels, 4.30 p.m., and Romance of the Peninsula Hotel, 5 p.m.
Dianer Dances: Hong Kong, Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels, 5.30 pm.
Majestic Theatre é "The Inst Edition."
and Peninsula Hotel, 5 p.m.
Ten Dances: Hong Kong Hotel,
Chinese New Year's Eve Car- World Theatre: The Flamingnivals: Hong Kong and Peninsula Forest."
Hotels, 8 p.m...
Star Theatre: Romance of the Underworld."
Majestic Theatre: "The Last Edition"
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Dinner Dances: Hong Kong, Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels, 8.30 p.m.
Europea Mails:-Outward Europe vid Marseilles (Sphinx), 12.30 p.m.
Wednesday. (January 29.) Golf: China New Year Meeting, Fanling-
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Queen's Theatre:
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Thursday. (January 30.), Chinese New Year.
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Star Theatre: "Single Standard" and "Torcats Roosters."
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