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A Liner Crashing Into an Iceberg !

WILLIAM FOX

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THE SHANTUNG FAMINE AREA.

PIGWEED SOUP, CHAFF BISCUITS AND FRIED

GRASSHOPPERS.

CROPS DAMAGED BY DROUGHT AND FESTS.

RESULT OF INVESTIGATIONS BY

EUROPEANS.

The following statement has beer issued by MrJohn E. Baker, General Secretary of the China Famine Relief Committee, dated August 27th:-

Famine in China is a fact. It is ot merely forecast for next winter; it is a fact now.

About eight miles west of Lia tsing, in Western Shantung, begins a strip some 30 miles wide and about 100 miles long, where practically hone of the fields have more than a third of a crop and some bave none at all. I visited this area and saw the results of drought, the ravages of grasshoppers and the extremities to which the people are reduced. I have not covered the whole Brea. But I went to Lintsing, where I met a group of representatives who came from the areas just indicated. I selected two of the districts among the many which were named... One of those districts, I visited myself. To another I sent Dr. F. F. Tucker. Оп return we compared notes! and found our experience to be practically identical. The reports which had been made to us were verified in detail,

LOCAL SHARE MARKET.

CONTINUES TO IMPROVE.

REPORT BY MESSRS. BEN.

JAMIN & POTTS.

Hong Kong and Shanghai Banks,

Messrs. Benjamin & Potts, it' their weekly report on the Hong Kong share market, dated yester- day, state:-Business in the local share market though still morò or les restricted, continues to im prove, and but for the scarcity of Blight In Other Corps.

shares offering there would have Something of the same conditions been a much larger volume of are to be noted from the railway transactions to report upon than for about 40 miles around Linchong. has been possible during the past I did not have the opportunity to week. Prices generally continue to go out into the fields and verify be well maintained and in a few the causes. But to an experienced cases substantial advances have been ere it is apparent that the kao-

established. liang is both thin and diseased. the millet heath, ragged, the beans sympathy with the rise in the and sweet potatoes suffering from London prices to £iss (Middle), some kind of klight or mildew. The hare improved "locally and deals station-master (who knew nothing! were made in them at $1,990. of my identity) stated that the Unions have been in strong demand fall crop would be almost a total

and the rate has steadily appreciat- failure, due to drought. Thee. There are buyers at $354 and spring wheat, however, had been sas. Hong Kong Fires have)ike- business has been transacted at good, although not good enough to wise strengthened and a fair busi bring the price down to normalness done in them at #780/790. Near Chu-fu 1 saw large swarm Cantons have ruled strong and close of grasshoppers and some areas with buyers at 8655. China Under- which had been devoured of every writers can be placed at 89.85. green thing. The populace was

Hong Kong, Canton and Macao out in force beating the pest into Steamboats have remained steady the ground. Companies of people, at $28. Waterboats are wanted at perhaps 100 or more to a company, 8201. Kowloon Wharves bave fur- were to be seen in every directher advanced to 8138. Whampoa tion, some of the companies being Docks are quiet at $37. led by the Kuomintang flag.

Malnutrition.

China Providents have again

Sores From Mal-nutrition.

been in good demand and were Out of 18 children who stood affected area in southern Chihli and $5.68. Hong Kong and Shanghai The drought and grasshopper dealt in to a fair extent up to around watching me eat my noon along the Shantung border, contains day lunch there was only one girl. about 1,500,000 mouths. From the Hotels continue on offer at 88.70. The ages of these children, ranged evidence in the villages visited by Hong Kong Lands after having from four to 13 the ages within Dr. Tucker and myself, I conclude receded to 8602, have recovered to a which girls and boys play together that one teeth of these people are buying quotation of 8534. Hum- if there are any girls. Among a

in an advanced state of mal- group of, perhaps, fourteen or nutrition at this moment. From phreys Estates are a shade higher fifteen men who watched me stow the ash-yellow complexions and dis and have had transactions at 814.70. myself in the cart by which I was tended stomachs, another two- travelling, two or three had pas tenths are

Hong Kong Trams were negotiat». sores on their necks and faces nourished condition that it is no Electrics (Old) were realised early in uch an undered at $24.30/824.40. Hong Kong impatueyo contagioso, the doctor said it was that ailed them, and exaggeration to say that they are in the week at 830, but close with added that while it sometimes was farmer in the whole region will have were bid up to 8144 Hong Kong slowing starving now. Scarcely a buyers at 651. China Laghta (Old) communicated to healthy persons, it more generally follows the uze

aerop more than a third of what Telephones are enquired for at of unfit food I asked what the necessary to ptain, physical 86.80, and sales reported at 87. people were eating and was told health until the ne harvist. They, Star Ferries were booked at of various combinations of leaves probably will not die-and prob- and chaff held together in a cakeably that's the pity, of it, for how 84.40. China Sugars have further declined to $1. Green Island by a little red kaoliang four, of could one choose to live under Cements (Combined) are gought for pig-weed soup, and grass greens. I

such privations. Practically speak- asked to be shown and I have ing from January 1st to June 15th 891. Dairy Farms continue in samples with me of the cakes which four-fifths of that population will good demand at $29. Watson's are were taken hot from under the in-need help. Nearly 1,250,000 will be unchanged with buyers at $141. verted kuo's of some of the homes partially starving. visited. I ate some of the pigweed soup; that is not so unpalatable. But the chaff biscuits, I could not swallow.

But I refrained from even tasting one common form of food in this village-fried grasshopers. One alley in the village of Shao Ku is known as "spinners' row." I was told that in all of the houses grass hoppers were the principal form of diet. I turned into one. Grass- hoppers fried was all there was to eat in the place. The one old man in the house was an advanced case of impatqzgo. He had two bandfuls of cotton lint which he was spinning into thread. He was paying one per cent. per day in- terest on the few coppers of capital necessary to finance bim from lint to thread. His two brothers were out begging, but they would catch some grasshoppers if their begging proved fruitless.

The Well-Digging Scheme. There are reports from Northern Shansi, from Honan, from other that severe privations are even now parts of Shantung, which indicate being felt. I am quite sure that the drought famine of 1920-21 ‹ was' of far wider extent than the areas affected this year. But the inten sity of the famine in the regions affected this year make the situa tion perhaps more desperate. If opportunity be given this autumn along the Chikli-Shantung border to work for five catties of beans and kaoliang a day, I feel sure that the representatives of fully 1,000,000 will ask for work.

Ewo Cottons can be placed at the improved quotation of Tis. 8.90. Singapore Tractions were bought at 11/8 and the Preference are firm at 17/6, with no sellers.

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By way of offering work, I hope that the funds may be forthcoming to attempt the digging of wells in the most badly affected hsien. Ghetto," complete with bearded Such magnificent results have fol- Jews, voluble Italians and mis- lowed the digging of wells in Ting chievous children, all recruited from hsies that well-irrigation may be the district, are included in the Fried Grasshoppers Samples. said to have passed the experi- picture. A remarkable scene is the In the farmer homes there were mental stage. The five counties sinking of the "Titanic," which. chaff and kaoliang or leat and around Tinghsien are considered to changes the destiny of many people kaoliang biscuits with pig-weed be permanently removed from the in the picture.

soup.

I was advised not to offer famine map of China. Perhaps the

to pay for the samples which I took same result can be obtained for

the morale of these families still those along the Shantung border.

being strong. But in the homes of the landless-spinners and similar artizana,-morale is gone, so I paid a few coppers for the fried grasshoppers I took as samples.

Approaching another village. I met a barrow man with a bulky but light load, which he explained was cotton chaff which was being sold

for food.

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FLOODS IN SHANTUNG.

32,000 PEOPLE DESTITUTE.

A further statement of conditions in Shantung has been made by the China International Famine Relief Commission which states:-

- RACE AGAINST TIDE.

MAN DROWNED BUT WOMAN RESCUED.

DOCTOR.

WHAT THEY DO ABOUT

THEIR OWN ADVICE.

STIFF COLLARS AND TOP HATS,

BODY SEEN THROUGH. WINDOW.

WOMAN'S RUSH TO DOCTOR..

Dr. Jacob Gorsky, giving evidence at a Westminster inquest, stated that a tall, dark woman whom he did not know called at his surgery and 'in excited cones declared that she had looked through a window in Tachbrook- street and seen a dead man."

On going to the house he found William Henry Packwood, aged 58, a boot repairer, lying dead.

It was stated that Packwood, a widower, lived alone, and that he died from heart disease.

CARDIFF, July 25th." While the rest of us who are not doctors have been eating sparingly in order to avoid the effects of the heat, many of the men who give | thai advice really do not seem to have noticed the heat wave, writes special correspondent to the Evening Standard. A crowd on the bench at Sboe- The doctors are here for the con- man and ference of the B.M.A. I have seen buryness, Essex, saw & woman who had walked out on the them daily eating substantial quantities of cider or even of miner sands more than half a mile race lunches and dinners without effort.explosives like ginger-pop. for their lives against an incoming Last night I watched a leading

In Linchu, 196 villages affected, 1,500 drowned, at least 24,000 with out means of livelihood. In Anchin, they plunged into & creek.

A verdict of Death from Natural Causes was recorded."

But the odd thing is that all of The wheat crop this spring, which generally was good over north

tide. The man was drowned, but specialist in his hotel eating a big the doctors I have spoken to agree At least 32,000 people are report the woman was rescued.

steak. He was drinking tea with that their conduct is indefensible ! China did not fail entirely in the ed to be without means of liveli

it,

"The trouble about being a medi- region visited, but it was not hood as the result of foods in the Realising the couple's danger as

They tell us not to wear hats, cal man," remarked one, is that- enough to reduce the price, which districts of Linchu and Anchin, they dashed along, Mr. Stanley

their own con you are continually striving to be These Goulding, of West-road, Shoebury but they wear now is 60 per cent, above normal. Shantung, on July 24th.

a human being like everybody else. Kaoliang is selling for eleven and two districts lie to the south of ness, secured volunteers to carry a tinually.

They advise light clothing and I know it is not good for me twelve cents a catty, or nearly three Tsinan-Tsingtao Railway-regions rowing boat 600 yards over-the

to have a whisky and soda in the times the normal price. Some re not hitherto reported as famine sands. The boat was launched by come to Cardiff in the heaviest

Mr. Fred Cardiff is sharing, the beat wave to heat, but it is rather nice to forget lief was in sight, however, for stricken. The floods came from the Mr. Goulding and a kaoliang from Manchuria Was Wen Ho and Mi Ho, and the ex. Dean, who had to row 300 yards the fullest extent; yet I saw no that depressing fact sometimes

fewer than five different doctors to- "And just between ourselves (his coming down the Grand Canal. tent of damage done has been re- before they got near the couple. The failure of the fall crop is due ported as follows:-

Then the man and woman, who-day walking about in overcoats voice sank to a whisper) there is a Smoking Like Chimneys. frightful amount of tosh talked by to two causes, principally, drought

were in shallow water, made a and grasshoppers. The grasshop

dash towards their rescuers," but They encourage us to get into some of us." have riddled the millet;

Mr the open air and yet spend their

What They Wear, drought ruined the kaoliang. At a 27 villages have been affected, Dean and. Mr. Goulding lifted the days in stuffy meeting places and little distance, the effects of neither drowning 300 and depriving 8,000 woman unconscious into the boat, their nights in theatres or cinemas of those causes are apparent, Bath of necessities of life. The CLF.B.O but a search for the man, in which or other public buildings. millet and kaoliang generally ap: Shantung Committee has despatch several boats joined, was unavail When a doctor tells me next what grim preoccupied assembly pear to be of normal height and ed a special agent with #0,000 for ing..

about the dangers of excessive and the wearer gave the idea that thickness, but on inspection the doing immediate relief work there. The woman, who regained con-smoking I shall remember the medi- he hadn't.

Several, for no valid reason, had millet heads, prove to have the The latest report on the grass sciousness four hours later, was cal men I have seen here smoking sced eaten off the stem in the hopper plague indicates that along Miss Hetty Pearce, of Pelham-like chimneys, and if I am warned top hats Quite a number wore middle of the head while the sap the Tientsin-Pukow line, south of street, Brick-lane, London, E. against the evils of drink I shall spats. One doctor in every hundred has been so extracted from the stalk Tawenkow and north of Lincheng. She had been spending the week wonder whether, after all, those wore a soft collar. The rest bad that the seed which remains in the in a stretch about 100 li wide, the ond in Shoeburyness. The drown evils would not be preferable to the stiff linen ores of all shapes and head is shrivelled. In the case of promising crops of kaoling and ed man was Mr. Henry Yanover. habit that seems so common among sizes, some of the designs apparent kaoling, fine-tall-stalkabour-ahead millet have been totally destroyed He-is...belissed to have lived in the doctors here" of drinking largely reaching back to

(Continued "on" next" Uolumn), which is nothing but chaff

-by-the-récont-visitation.-

Bethnal Green,25,

pers

In three hours' investigation toy day I saw exactly one pair of flannel trousers worn in this some-

"Victorian era.