It was decided on the 16th instant, at a meeting of the Tientsin Relief Committee, to address the following appeal to the foreign residents in Chins, Jepen, Coren, Hongkong, and the Straits Settlements. The Chinese Times adds that whatever success or failure may attend" the collection of funds, "'subscribers will have the satisfaction of knowing that the entire procedure of the committee been marked by deliberation and caution; there has been no panic, and the information on which the appeal to the benevolent is based has been gathered trous most truth worthy sources, mostly by the personal enquiries and visits of members of the committee. Every care lias been taken to profit by past experience; and there is every reason to hope that by working in an area limited enough to admit foreign supervision coutri-3 will be turned to good account, a belief strengthened by the presence on the committee of many of the ablest veterans of this philanthropic warfare."
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