Relief for Famine-Stricken China
By Editor
Copies of the "China Press" note the ravages of famine and the dire distress that exists in some parts of China, especially in the region of Hankow. Fields have been inundated by floods, crops and cattle destroyed, houses rendered uninhabitable, poor people erecting mat sheds and huts on the outskirts, from which children issue daily to beg for bread. There is demanded, first, a supply of material at cheap rate for putting up such huts as the poor are always content to live in; second, clothing made of Chinese calico, wadded with cotton wool; and third, foodstuffs. And the Hankow Relief Committee is planning to give able-bodied people work, and such ones will receive relief only as they are willing to work. Any of our readers who desire to aid the suffering Chinese, may forward their funds through the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, and we shall be glad to send them on.