FAMINE IN CHINA.
THE CONDITIONS IMPROVING. MORE FUNDS REQUIRED. Received Feb. 21, 8.20 p.m. By Telegraph—Press Assn —Copyright Peking, Feb. 20. The famine conditions in China are improving. Most of the sufferers are assured against starvation by grain stocks at relief stations, which the entire famine district can reach at the crucial period. When the spring comes the weakened people will take up work lon their lands, which, however, are heavily mortgaged, and they will be Without farm animals.
The winter wheat crops have been generally excellent, and there has been no epidemic, save the usual occasional typhus cases. The relief funds available total ten million dollars, and it is seven million more will be Required.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 February 1921, Page 5
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118FAMINE IN CHINA. Taranaki Daily News, 22 February 1921, Page 5
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