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Excerpt from River, Lake and Land Conservancy in Portions of the Provinces of Anhui and Kiangsu, North of the Yangtsze River
This year, with the exception of old, sick or extremely young people who have no one to work for them, all who get relief have to work for it, and one man's work will feed five people. The result has been satisfactory. The number actually entitled to relief has been reduced by fully one half, and all the work done has been located and laid out so as to make it of permanent conservancy value, the work being either the building or repairing of dykes or the excavation of drainage canals and ditches and the cleaning of the existing canals.
During the summer of 1911 the National Committee of the American Red Cross and the Department of State decided that an Engineer should be sent to China to make a thorough examination of this flood and famine region, with a View to designing some scheme by means of which the flood level could be lowered, the rivers properly trained, and the swamps and shallow lakes drained and made available for agriculture. Through the American Legation in Peking this offer was conveyed to the Chinese Government, which accepted it with much pleasure, stating that it would furnish all the assistance the American Engineer might need in the way of survey parties, etc., and would also pay the field expenses of such parties and the expenses of the American Engineer from the time of the arrival in China until his preliminary examination and work were completed, the National American Red Cross paying the salary of the Engineer sent. I had the honour to be appointed by the National Committee of the American Red Cross with the approval of the Department of State for this work, and arrived in Peking on July 16th, 1911.
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