Sixth Middle School, Soochow. The Commission has already left for Europe where they expect to visit a number of countries before going back to China.

Herman C. E. Liu has returned to assume his studies at the Teachers College, New York City, after having completed a two months' tour with the Kiangsu Educational Commission.

C. C. Lin, chairman of the Eastern Section of the Chinese Students' Alliance, sailed for China, on the S. S. Golden State, which left San Francisco on March 19. His sudden departure was the result of an urgent call from home on account of his mother's illness.

T. F. Tsiang, President of our Association, has been elected to succeed Mr. Lin as chairman of the Eastern Section of the Chinese Students' Alliance. He is now busy making preparations for the summer conference, the place of which has not yet been decided upon.

S. Wing Lew, an active Christian worker and former president of the Chinese Students' Club of Los Angeles, Calif., has received his Master's Degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of Southern California. He is now Assistant Head Chemist of the Sun Drug Company, Los Angeles, California.

S. M. Lee (graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has returned to Cambridge to take more advanced studies in M. I. T. after having held positions in several electrical concerns in the East.

Thomas F. Millard, one of the leading American authorities on Far Eastern problems, has left New York City for a short investigation of conditions in the Orient. He plans to make a survey of events and return to the United States in the early

summer.

P. C. Chang, of the Teachers College, New York City, recently made a lecture tour through the Middle West where he spent about a month.

S. Peter Chuan has left Peking and joined as its Literary Secretary the China for Christ Movement, which has its headquarters at 5 Quinsan Gardens, Shanghai.

Charles D. Hurrey, General Secretary of the Committee on Friendly Relations, is now on an extensive trip visiting countries of South America in the interests of the World's Student Christian Federation. From there he will go to Europe to attend the Student Conference, which is to be held in Holland next summer. Mr. Hurrey will be back in the States in time for summer confer

ences.

Lum K. Chu, associate secretary of the Association, has just completed his long-expected visitation work in the Middle West.

Philip H. Young, who finished his work at Kansas State Agricultural College last winter, is now on a special trip through the South where he expects to spend about six months in studying rice problems. He will visit districts in Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Florida and other States. During this work his headquarters will be at Beaumont, Texas, but mail should still be sent to Manhattan, Kansas, from which place it will be forwarded.

Loy Hing, Vice Chairman of the Western Department of the Association, was in San Francisco to attend the Chinese National League Convention as a delegate from Seattle, Washington.

P. C. Hsu, formerly of the Peking Y. M. C. A., is now studying at Union Theological Seminary, New York City.

Miss N. Z. Dong, of Bryn Mawr College, was in New York City to see the Kiangsu Educational Commission during the latter part of March. Miss Dong is the representative editor of the Women's Department of the Association.

Miss Helen Wong, Treasurer of the Women's Department of the Association, has been ill in the hospital for a few weeks, but has now recovered.

Dr. Wang Chung Hui, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of China, has been appointed by the Council of League of Nations a member of the Committee to revise the Covenant, and will accept, provided the Peking Government grants him leave of absence.

Frank W. Price, Associate Secretary of the Association, spent a week in the middle of March, doing special Christian work among the Chinese students in Purdue University and the University of Illinois in connection with the evangelistic campaigns.

Dr. Arthur W. Woo, M. B. B. S., M. R. C. S., L. R. C. P., is on a tour visiting Europe and America with his bride. He will sail in the latter part of April for China where he expects to be connected with the Union Medical College Hospital in Peking.

Miss Frances Wang, traveling secretary of the W. C. T. U. in China, is at present in the Philippine Islands on a lecture tour. She will return to China early in the summer.

T. M. Liu of Ohio Wesleyan University likes the March issue of Christian China so well that he sent in a special order for twenty copies. Mr. Liu is our enthusiastic local representative in that institution.

K. C. Li, president of Wah Chong Trading Corporation in New York City, has been awarded the Chao Ho decoration by the Peking Government in recognition of his service rendered to the country along the lines of domestic industry and foreign trade. Mr. Li is a mining engineer by profession and is a graduate of London University with post graduate work at Columbia University,

Dr. K. H. Li of the Children's Hospital, Philadelphia, was in New York City on April 6th to interview the China Medical Board of the Rockefeller Foundation for some important official business.

Alfred S. H. Lee, is now connected with the China Shipping Corporation which has its office at 110 Front Street, New York City. Mr. Lee, aside from his duties of said corporation, is serving as treasurer of the Association and local representative of its work in New York "Chinatown." He is also taking studies at Columbia University.

H. S. Chou has been elected chairman of the Christian Work Committee in Philadelphia to succeed C. Chen who recently resigned on account of his heavy work in the University.

THE GREAT DROUGHT FAMINE IN CHINA

This is not news to most of us, nor is it anything which will add to our knowledge. Although it may strengthen our desire to help China to become a better country to live in. Doubtless, most of us have learned through the general press, that a vast area in the northern part of China, is now afflicted with a most desperate famine that ever occurred in China's history, and that it is rather heart-breaking to know that millions of our beloved countrymen are facing death of starvation. However, I embrace this opportunity to re-inform the Chinese students in this country some of the striking news which I received from China about the horror of famine and to suggest that every Chinese student in this country ought to do his or her part to help the millions of famine sufferers in order that they may live

on.

The total famine area of the five provinces, Chihli, Shantung, Shansi, Shensi and Honan, is equal to the total area of all these States: California, Oregon, Washington, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New Hampshire. The number of famine sufferers in these five porvinces is five times the total population of all the above mentioned States. These facts alone ought to convince that the help required is indeed tremendous.

In those famine districts, once were full of vegetation, even every tiniest patch of land was under cultivation. But there is nothing growing now. It is all bare and not an inch of ground either on the terraced hillsides or on the great plains that does not look as though it had been crumbled and smoothed into fitness for seedtime. Whether or not these places will be planted depends on whether or not it rains this year. If not, it means another year of famine.

Let us now see some of the desparate conditions which the unfortunate people of the famine districts are now facing. Report submitted by the investigating committee, sent out by the Chinese Foreign Relief Committee of Shanghai, states that at least 25,000,000 people are affected by this great drought famine. Food has become so exhausted that roots, grasses, leaves and barks are powdered and made in form of cake to take its place. The report states further