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Show Chinese Fear Famine. Advices from Pokln stato that tho Chlneso foreign offlco Is alarmod at the project of tho Phlllpplno government govern-ment to purchase 30.000 water buffaloes buffa-loes In South China to roplaco thoso which havo died of tho pest. United States Mlnistor Conger has asked tho authorities to remit tho export duty on tho buffalo, bocauso tho project Is charitable, but Ling Fang, secretary of tho foreign office, replied that ho doubtod whether thoro woro 30,000 buffaloes In China, and said ho feared tho Chlneso farmers would sell nil thoy had and that famine would ro-suit |