China’s Famine and Devastation
A CORRESPONDENT of the San Francisco Chronicle, writing from Tien-tsin, China, declares that the condition of the people in the north of China is deplorable in the extreme, and that death from starvation will unquestionably be the portion of thousands of them. Great areas of the country have been systematically devastated by both the Boxers and the allied foreign troops. In many sections every house has been burned and the crops utterly laid waste. The correspondent says: "To those who look for retaliation in kind for the lives of foreigners that were treacherously taken, let it be said that the revenge has been taken a hundred-fold. For the property destroyed an even higher price has been paid. From a strictly punitory standpoint the people have been given a scourging that will remain a tradition with them."