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FAMINE INVESTIGATION 1929
What follows is the report drawn up by GFA on his return to Chefoo, and was written
in October 1929.
“GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD”
I am very thankful now that I did not know when I left Chefoo on the 17th.
March last the experiences that lay ahead of me during the four and a half
months that I was to be absent.
In response to an urgent appeal from the China International Famine Relief
Commission at Peiping, I was released by the Mission from my teaching
duties in the Chefoo Schools in order to make a tour of investigation in the
province of Kansuh, from whence most acute famine conditions were reported.
These reports had been reaching the coast for months and before taking any
active relief measures, the Commission felt it only right to send someone to
FAMINE INVESTIGATION 1929
What follows is the report drawn up by GFA on his return to Chefoo, and was written
in October 1929.
“GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD”
I am very thankful now that I did not know when I left Chefoo on the 17th.
March last the experiences that lay ahead of me during the four and a half
months that I was to be absent.
In response to an urgent appeal from the China International Famine Relief
Commission at Peiping, I was released by the Mission from my teaching
duties in the Chefoo Schools in order to make a tour of investigation in the
province of Kansuh, from whence most acute famine conditions were reported.
These reports had been reaching the coast for months and before taking any
active relief measures, the Commission felt it only right to send someone to
