$25,000 Grant for Russians in Kirin: Terrible Conditions Following several weeks of investigation in connexion with the Russian refugees in Korea, Manchuria and China, the China Central Committes of the American Red Cross announces that a preliminary appropriation of U.S. G.$25,000, including U-S. G.$10,000 contributed from Russian sources in America, has been made available by the American National Red Cross of Washington, D.C., for the temporary relief of the Russian refugees in Manchuria.
Mr. Morgan Palmer, of the Salt Gabelle, Manchuria, has undertaken om a volunteer basis the direction of the relief operations in Mamchuria and has left Peking for Kirin where large numbers of refugees have gathered and are still arriving daily from Hunchun on the Manchurian border. It is estimated that there are probably about 10,000 in Kirin now. Mr. Palmer, a public-spirited business man, is well-known for his work in connexion with the North China Famine Relief Workin 1920-21.
Reports indicate that the government of Chosen, the Japanese Red Cross, the Seoul Foreign Relief Committee, the Ladies Patriotic Society and other philanthropic organizations have the situation with respect to the 5,500 refugees ait Gensan, Korea well in hand at the present time. Advices received by the China Central Committee of the A.R.C. point to the probability of there being about 53,000 or more Russian refri: in Korea, Manchuria and China, including those at Gensan and the 5,000 at Shanghai all of whom are in a more or less difficult situation.
Under date of January 8 Mr W. W. Taylor, head of the Foreign Relief Committee in Seoul, reported that the main body of Hunchun refugees, numbering 8,600. (including 1,100 women and children and 400 sick and wounded) had! started overland from Hunchun to Kirin. It is said that the conditions under which the Kirin refugees are living are terrible. The Chinese give them a ration of about two pounds of white bread per day pet individual. Nothing besides this but plain water is given. Sickness is breaking out among them and things are going from bad to worse. In the opinion of Mr. E. D. Verink, General Secretary of the Y.M.C.A., Kirin, refugees in that city would face a desperate situation if some thing is not) done for them at once as children there are Jliterarily starving to death.
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