'A mesting of the Red Cross Bociety of China was held in the Town Hall on Thursday evening. There was a good attendance, and on the motion of Dr. Timothy Richard, Sir Havilland de Sausmarez was elected to the chair. On the platform he was supported by Mr. Shen Tan-be, Mr. Duncan Mc-Neill, Dr, Richard and others.
Mr. Shen Tun-ho, who was dressed in uniform and wore many decorations, the work of the Society. His speech delivered speech in Chinese upon was translated, and thowed that after attending to the many wounded at Hankow, the Society was faced with the banal of the dead soldiers. Plans had not yet been completed for their banal, and they were afraid that the dead bodies might breed disease, It was thought that the Red Cross Society should charter several lighters so that the dead could be taken away and buried, otherwise they feared that plague snd other things would break out io China. That work would be possible only with the help and cooperation of their foreiga as Chinese friends, snd they therefore hoped and begged most sincerely that the friends present there would open their purses to help this great and philanthropic movement. In the course of his speech Mr. Shen made sllasion to the interest taken by General Li in the work of the Bociety elected—kow, mentioning his contribution 10,000. He had visited the men, hospital, as aleo bad Mrs. Li, Alter other speeches bad been delivered, the Chairman said that it fell to his lot to propose the names of the General Committee whom they wished to instal as representing the society. Before he did so be thought he might perhaps say a few words on the general position of the situation which brought them. The straggle which was visiting China and which bad ended as so many straggles in the history of nations in civil war, was almost at their gates and therefore it was that they to devise means of alleviating the sofferings of those who must necessarily be victims of the war, and who, be thought history showed, would suffer more in civil war than in almost soy other kind of strife. They bad beard that round about Hankow many of the dead were lying unburied, and it was one of the first and most urgent claims upon them to see to these. It was not only for decency, but for health, for the fatare that such causes of contagion and disease should be removed. They were fortunately outside the ares of the strife, but that to his mind was all the more Arobold, L. J. Cubitt, H. de Gray, H. Figge, Dr. Fresson, F. H. Gam-burg, Very Rev. Bishop Graves, O.M. Green, A.C. Hunter, H.E. Hanter, J.N. Jameson, K. Kodama, W.E. Levewn. Dr. Macleod, D. McNeil, BF. Mackay, H. F- Merely V. Moyer, E.C. Pearce, W.A.C. Platt, President of the French Municipal Council, Procurear des Missions Etrangeres, F. Rayden, O. E. Rayner, Dr. Timothy Richard, Dr. von Bclab, C. 0. Beott, Selby Moore. M. A. Stempel, 0. Struckmeyer, Rev, man Rev. A.J. Wi eatergaard, C. J. Symons, Dr. H. The, T. E, Tras-
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Chinese, Of the names above given the following were members of the Committee in 1904:—Mesers, H. de Gray, Bishop Gravee, A, O. Hunter, J. N. Jameson, Dr. Macleod, D, McNeill, W. A. 0. Platt and Dr. Timothy Richard.
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