The Archive · 1911

The Red Cross Society

AN APPEAL FOR AID

received from Mr, Shen Tan-ho an appeal for financial aid for the Red Cross Society is doing in connexion with the revelation. Letters arriving from Hankow contain grim details which demonstrate the urgent need for aid. Writing from Hankow on October 24, the Rev. 8, G. Ad attacking the wounded, and they had to be kept off the long lites of dead, lying for four days unburied. We can't get the dead baried. They wait for foreiga volanters to do this dat; Not only is the banal of the dead a work of charity which should commend itself to all, bat in of the dsoger of disease arising from the delay 1 is also one on The Society oon-templates the removal of the corpses in large steel boats to be leased from foreign firma, and the rebel leader is to be asked to acsiga ground for a cemetery at the back of Wuchang. For this essential work additional fande are required if the efforts of workers on the spot are not to be restricted.

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