-----------------+---------+--------+---------+------- Comparative Time | No. of |No. of | No. of | | Robbers |Thieves |Swindlers| Total -----------------+---------+--------+---------+------- Sept.-Nov., 1905 | 5 | 833 | 99 | 937 “ “ 1904 | 5 | 123 | 36 | 163 Dec. 1905 | 1 | 363 | 70 | 434 “ 1904 | 1 | 69 | 36 | 106 Jan. 1906 | 1 | 266 | 27 | 294 Jan. 1905 | 0 | 80 | 0 | 80 Feb. 1906 | 1 | 211 | 51 | 263 “ 1905 | 1 | 46 | 22 | 69 -----------------+---------+--------+---------+------- In Sendai City, at the beginning of the famine, all rice dealers constituted a trust in order to enhance the market price of rice. Mayor Hayakawa determinedly imported rice from Tokyo at his own risk to the amount of about 102,600 bushels to check the trust, which was, in consequence, almost panic-stricken and had to bring down the price lower than before. Currency being scarce at the time in this district, he issued temporary notes to be used for paying wages only on public works. These notes could be exchanged for foods only, not for wine or liquor nor for tobacco, and are even to-day in circulation among wage-earning people there. I enclose herewith their samples. Speaking generally, all sufferers have now been rescued from starvation throughout these three famine stricken districts. It is not any exaggeration to say that many lives have been saved through the generosity of American people, and that every peasant, rich and poor, or wise and ignorant, has more than highly appreciated the kindness and sympathy you have extended to him so practically. In Sendai City, at my request, Hon. Kamei, President of Miyagi Red Cross Branch, introduced me to foreign missionaries living there, whose names, it gives me great pleasure to mention here, were: Mr. W. E. Lampe, Mr. C. S. Davison, Mr. C. Jacquet, Dr. J. H. DeForest, Mr. M. B. Madden. I dined with them and enjoyed the party to a full extent. Scarcely need be said that these missionaries have played a great part especially by this critical time in helping the sufferers. I have no doubt that the former’s effort in enlightening, in addition, the latter in every respect together with all classes of people must have been and will be more than the whole Japan can repay.