Tokio, Sept. 21.
The Chinese relief squad despatched by the China Red Cross Society in Peking is engaged in relief work in the First Garrison Hospital. It is expected that the squad will go to-morrow to Yokohama where it will give medical treatment to the sick and wounded for a few days. Another relief squad from the Shanghai Branch of the China Red Cross Society arrived here on the 20th and have established their headquarters in front of the Japan Red Cross Society. They commenced their relief work this afternoon, giving medical treatment to apanese and Chinese patients in the Red Cross Hospital and at ~Shibaura. Mr. Niu Ching-lin, chief of the relief squad from Shanghai, in the course of an interview with a_representative of the Eastern News Agency to-day, said in part:—
"This is the first time that the China Red Cross Society has despatched its relief squads abroad on such a large scale as this. It will be most gratifying if this move on the China Red Cross Society's part should prove beneficial_to the diplomatic relations of Japan and China."
With peace and order completely restored and with the popular feeling more tranquil, jafugees are gradually returning to the sites of their former residences, where they are building for themselves temporary sheds, though there are not a few sufferers who are going into the country. According to the railway authorities, 45,500 people entered Tokio by rail on tha 18th instant, and 73,200 left. In the meantime, in the hilly districts of Tokio, where com-done, shops are open as_ usual paratively little damage was
and the main streets in Yotsuya and Ushigeme districts are as prosperous as before..
The Government has established 20 labour-exchange offices in Tokio and 10 in Yokohama and has also decided to purchase at the national expense necessary utensils or instruments and lend them to workmen.—Eastern News Agency.
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