Show CHARITY SA SAl ES VES MILLIONS iN CHINA CHINAI I Multitudes Must Have Perished Perished Perished Per Per- Pert PerI I t I i Had U. U S. S Not Acted I IDy II I By Dy CIL EDWARD HOGUE I Staff Start of United Press SHANGHAI May G. G Famine G.-Famine Famine conditions conditions conditions condi condi- which have threatened lives in northern China and have been aggravated by typhus and other virulent virulent virulent viru viru- lent diseases are being to today today torta to- to it day appear in such such likely a systematic a t major c cp p proportion manner ifo that h of the population will be saved The fate of the suffering millions depends on the continued financial of America America America Amer Amer- ica and China Highway y construction on a greater scale than has ever before been known in China I has ben been undertaken In Shantung Shantung Shan Shan- h t ni tung n Shansi n and Chill Chili provinces 0 es un under under un- un der the direction of the American Red Tied Cross As a result of this movement millions of starving families have been enabled to win a livelihood while pro pro- meting the future betterment of the stricken districts Already there has been completed a agre gre great t highway from Teh Chow in to Kwan Iwan Tao and this road is to be extended eastward to Han lIan Tan where it will reach the Grand Canal Chinas China's ancient inland water water- I way Similar plans are under way for Shansi and Chill Chili provinces I empl employed by the relief workers work work- ers to obtain the best results for the thc benefIt of the suffering populace have have been carefully considered Workmen Workmen Work Work- men are chosen from the h families II In fees fees' mar ai greatest r tt distress and are paid In grain a in quantities sufficient to maintain the strength of the laborers and their families Pekin Union Medical college dieticians clans have given their advice as t to the amount of or food necessary to maintain I the sufferers and every precaution has been taken to avoid waste Transportation of food supplies to toI I the people P l living from fifty to smiles I miles l ll eli in the e interior io rf from the nearest a rail rail connection has proved a severe I problem but Is being solved by the use of battalions of wheelbarrow coolies coo coo coo- lies Hundreds of these coolies with their squeaking barrows are dally daily along along- the paths from rail to villages bearing foodstuffs Present are arc that the first I harvest will be reaped about June 20 i Then the crisis will have been passed unless the elements decree otherwise In the meantime millions of dollars I must be he forthcoming to save millions of lives |