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Show FAMINE NOT vInMAIrll Crisis Will te Reached Reach-ed in About Six Weeks Now Yoik, March 2 An exhaustive report on plague and famine conditions condi-tions in China will soon be available here. It was prepared by Pekin experts ex-perts In the employ of the Chlneso government at the request of Lee YIng Yung, Chinese consul at this porL The report is voluminous and, being done in the Chinese language, will require jeveral days for translation. transla-tion. It showa according to the consul, con-sul, that the crisis in the famine dls-trict dls-trict will be reached in about six week's and that China will need all the help America can ive her to tide over the afflicted through that time. The work through the Chinese empire em-pire has been directed- particularly to preventing the plague and famine zones from coming together, as the combination of these two scourges will make successful lighting of eltaer one piactlcally impossible. The reports to American mission' boards from their agents In China have not been exaggerated, according to Mr. Yung. Conditions, he says, are fully as bad as reported "It seems very strange." says the consul, "to hear of America sending her lice to China from the fields in Texas and the Carolinas. It Is like what you call carrying coals to Newcastle. New-castle. And yet It Is exactly what -must be done to save the lives of countless thousands " |