Sprawling China presented to the world last week a grim picture in hodge podge. While Peiping boasted of its well-fed, growing population (see p. 24), 4,000,000 famine-shriveled Chinamen, not 400 miles to the west in Shansi and neighboring provinces, looked to almost certain death before spring. Six millions have already died. Shansi women, desperate, advertised themselves as "Hunger Brides," were offering eight and ten ยข for husbands who could feed them something besides roots and grasses.
In Shanghai, bandits broke all the Chinese traditions of kidnaping, abducted the hitherto-scorned girl babes of wealthy China merchants. The New Nationalist Government's recent decree,...
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