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FAMINE IN YUNNAN
PEASANTS LIVING ON FERN ROOTS
(From Our Own Correspon2ank)
Kopu, February 23,
At the present time we are pass- ing throughout an experience hore in Kopu that I have never had be fore. It is not a plouskat expori- once either. The fact is, we are excessive rains last summer made witnessing a time of famine. The
the maize erop exceedingly poor. People had sufficient to carry them along for a few months-but now, in some families the maize is all gone, had there are yet three months before the first crop (barley) will be ripe.
United States total trade with fly. These two commodities, how- the Far East during 1932 amount ever, were the only ones showing ed to $679,330,000 compared with suny; increase and as a result total 2003,230,000 for 1931. This deeline" pxports from the United States to shows the effects of prevailing Indian markets in 1938, amounting cvonomic conditions at home and to $21,015,000 were 28.0 per cent, be abroad, of fluctuating exchange low the 1031 total of $38,698,(6). rates, and the reduced purchasing
Improved business conditions in
The people have seen the shortago power, of the masses in most orien- Australia are reflected in the total coming noarer and nearer, and they tal countries. The effects of highorot 23,818,000 worth of American are stolidly facing possible starva
goods purchased during 1938, aption. At home it is impossible to tariffs, combined with lower comproximately hut 1.9 per cent. less imagine such a state of affairs, as modity prices also took their toll, than for 1831, when the total reach communications are so much better while disturbed administrative con-od 827,167,000. Considerable gains and food can be quickly carried to ditions" in China and India proved in the value of automotive products areas where erops may have failed. important factors in reducing trade and electrical equipment and in the Governments also take up such volume of refined mineral oils were matters and give aid. But these offset however, by losses in other people have nothing like that to In both oxports and importe re-leading staples, such as soft wood lighten the load. What do they do sults of the general price decline lumber, iron and steel, industrial then? They go out and dig bracken
to occasionally sufficient
machinery and leaf tobacco, Ex-fern roots from the billsides. change into actual losses anticipat ports to New Zealand declined by * Preparing, the Roots. ed dollar gains from an increased 31.6 per cent, from 813,478,000 to volume of business. Exports from 80,233,000 with gasoline as the only the United States to the Far East important item accorded any con- in 1932 declined by 23.7 per cent.siderable advance. from the 1831 total of $421,578,000 to #321,481,000. Imports into the United States from the Far East of the masses in Netherland India, totalled 8337,818,000 contrasted with ou-sales to theso Islands in 1939 $573,832,000 in 1931. Compared with declined by 42 per cent, from the 1929, total imports showed a slump 1931 total of $13,470,000 to $9,233, of 73 per cent, and exports: 60 per 000, with leaf tobacco. alone, on the cent while they were 34 and 43 upgrade, per cent. respectively, below the average imports and exports for the years 1915 to 1019, inclusive. Due allowance should be made, however, for the higher prices ruling for both domestic and Far Eastern products in the earlier periods.
were
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A Substantial Décrease,
Due to the low purchasing power
Malaya.
to Malaya
Exports
totalling 2,468,000, represented a loss of 47 per cent,, while shipments to Corlon
an! Siam were also weak. Indo- China's share in the export trade advanced, however, from 8067,000 to $1,484,000, largely the result of heavier shipments
of kerosene, machinery, electricnd
equipment, and petroleum asphalt.
Bracken-fern roots? What do they do with them. Well may, you ask. These black bracken roots are. not much thicker than your thumb. Each morning the mun folk set out They grow best in high places. with hoe and basket and get busy digging the roots which is quito hard work. Late in the afternoon they bring their and down to the brook, where the other members of the family came to help. The roots are thrown into a pool to wash off the earth. Then two or three men and women get busy with heavy the purpose) and pound the damp wooden mallets (mado especially for roots. The pounding has to be very. thorough and must be most tiring thus pulpod, they are put into a work indeed. After the roots are Preliminary returns indicate that
bamboo basket, which is placed on the only gain in exports during
top of some slats over a water butt.. 1932 was 53 per cent, in shipments
Then quite a lot of water is ladled to Indo Chita, a country whose
over the mass. It gradually seeps total imports of American products
During 1932, the entire Far East through the basket into the butt, were but $1,484,000 for the year. bought 3,013,000 bales of raw cotton after being left to stand some time, The remaining countries in the Farwhich more than doubled the a glutinous substance is found at Eastern area bought lesa American amount purchased in 1931 for sup the bottom of the butt. This is then products than for the previous plementing Oriental cotton neces scraped out and taken home for The heaviest actual loss; Bary for the requirements of cooking into a food. The work in- $18,080,000, in shipments (to any Japanese, Chinese, and Indian tex-volved is great, and there is only of the countries was incurred in tile mill. In addition, the Ocient about enough for a day's food at sales to China ae a whole, while absorbed 114,580,000 pounds of leaf the end of it all probably not suf five countries-China, Japan, India, tobacco, a loss of approximately 30 ficient for a family. The stuff thus Now Zealand, and Netherland India,accounted for 90 per cent rettes, or 18 per cent. less than a little grain (if the family is fortu per cent.; and 1,127,237,000 ciga- produced is sometimes mixed with of the total decline in exports during 1931. Abolit 70 per cent. of nate enough to have any), or it Heavier sales of raw cotton, the leaf tobacco, and 7.5 per cent, may he mixed with cooked beans, line, cotton piece-goods, canned of the cigarettes oventually found although in many cases it is just. milk, and lead failed to counter their way into Chinese ports: In eaten by itself. It is practically balance a shrinkage in automotive contract with those reductions, Far tasteless and most unappetizing. It products, kerosene, machinery, iron Eastern countries bought from the is unthinkable that we could live and steel and tobacco.
United States 149,900,000 yards of such stuff for a day, let alone cotton cloth, an increase of 47 per cont Shipments of flour to the
There are people here in the sume area totalled only 1,855,000 barrels, a shrinkage of 40 per cent, opu village who have had nothing while wheat declined from 14,238,000 but this bracken-root stuff for about to 2,800,000 bushels, both losses a couple of months now, and prac being largely the result of increased tically all are eating it at present, food supplies within China. The They seem to accept the situation value of soft wood lumber, timber, with stôlid inevitableness, but ih logs, etc., shipped from the Pacifioakes our hearts sink to think of Coast, totalled 84,900,000, comparfamily in the village here, when my the all around us like this. One ed with 39,850,000 for the previous husband called to give a little help, year a loss partly due to the fact said that they can manage to eat that the greater part of Australia this fern-root themselves, but that purchases of Douglas fir were turn the very little children in the ed into Canadian trade channels. family cannot take it, and are Additional exports included 51, always crying that they are hungry. 350,000 worth of petroleum products, If you could only see the awful- a reduction of 14 per cent, and $14,-looking stuff, you would understand 760,000 of automative products, a why small children cannot eat it! loss of practically 33 per cent. It looks something like black indin Sales of machinery and electrical rubber with a similar, springy.com. equipment dropped from $23,150,000sistency. to. 617,643,000, and iron and steel from 821,405,000 to $12,050,000.
During 1932, Japan bought 28 per cent, more American raw cotton than in the previous year, but at reduced prices; and trebled her purchase of kerosene oil. Addi. tional purchases included 33 per cent. mera crude petroleum and 18 per cent. more lead, besides larger quantities of iron and steel mill products. Sharp declines in both the quantity and value of other im portant items, however, tended to reduce total United States exports to Japan by 13.6 per cent. from $158,715,000 to $134,537,,000,
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Exports to China. Exports to the whole of China during 1032 totalled 867,052,000 can- trasted with 8115,119,000 for the previous year, a loss of 41.7 per cent Although in this greatly diminished trade few items such as the value of passenger cars, the
Grain can be obtained but prices number of trucks and buses and the
have soared so high that it is prac quantity of gasoline showed some
tically.out of reach of most of the increase, these were in marked
people. It is fully three times its contrast with heavy losses in petro-
Usual price. We have thus been leum products as a whole, tobacco
Imports into the United States able to get food for ourselves; and and tobacco products, and soft wood from the Far East for 1939 it makes us feel bad to sit down to lumber and timber from the Pacific amounted to $157,818,000, compared our meals as usual when we remem Coast While the value of elec with 8673,652,000 for the previous ber how hungry people are around trical equipment held fairly well, that of iron and steel and indus ont due to a weakened demand for recently I remarked to one of the year, a loss of more than 37 per. On a bright glorious Sunday trial machinery was cut in half in Oriental raw materials among Ame women standing outside the chapel each instance. A smaller amount ofrican manufacturers. Every country that it was a beautiful day, "Yes," American wheat and flour was also in the Far East sold the United she replied, "it is very nice. But necessary for supplementing China's States smaller proportions of com- we are hungry!" And there is no food supplies, and considerably less modilica ranging from 7 per cent. Prospect of anything else for about raw cotton was required for her less for the Philippine Islands to three months and then only a tiding textile mills than during 1931. 59 per cent: less for Malaya. In over until the maize is ripe in July During 1932 the United States these diminished sales, the combin or August. It must be just des sold the Philippine Islands $44,987, ed losses of Japan, Malaya, India, perate for the people to think of the 000 of various commodities, con- and the Philippine Islands totalled waiting time between trasted with $48,884,000 for the $187,385,000, or 37 per cent, of the
Lawlegemets. previous year, is locs of but 8 per total reduction in imports.wlessness increase, and hauch rob The of made cent The Philippines not only ranked third in our export trade of raw silk from Japan showed a resorted to, to got a little grain Although the volume of imports bery, and even murder has been with the Drient but were our most decline of less than one per cent, a or money. Only last Sunday even- important foreign market for cotton loss of 38 per cent. in the value, ing four men entered the home of a cloth cigarettes and newsprint combined with smaller reductions in paper. During the year they also other commodities tended to cause ranked second in the Far Eastern total imports from Japan, to recede markete for American trucks and from 8185,718,000 to $134,527,000 third for pathoge cars An-in-Imports from the whole of China, eronga of spurtiximately 42 per cent. which showed a steady reduction each in the value of cotton cloth both quantity and value, totalled
maller Increases in cotton manu 000 for 1531.
kerreno accompanied by #13,367,000, contracted with $73,811,
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