Nov. 20.
Tae membership enrollment of the American Red Cross which begins this morning and will last three days, calls attention to the activities in China of this very interesting organization, the head of which is the President of the United States. Unlike most philanthropic _organizations, the American Red Cross is not concerned in foreign countries with helping its own nationals. Its activities in China are limited to service for the Chinese. Its activities in Europe in feeding children and organizing relief work were to assist the people of the countries in which its agents were active. In China, the work of the American Red Cross is managed by a China Central Committee with headquarters in Shanghai. Under the direction of this committee sums mounting into millions of dollars have been spent in constructive relief work. The Huai River Conservancy is one of the tasks for which the Red Cross has spent a considerable sum of money. In the last great famine good roads were built under Red Cross management in north China. Although Russian relief does not come strictly within the territorial jurisdiction of the China Central Committee, such work was undertaken and a special agent of the Central Committee, Mr. Morgan Palmer, of the Salt Gabelle, was sent into Manchuria to organize assistance for the thousands of homeless Russians there.
Similarly, a great service was rendered. in Shanghai in the starting of a soup kitchen and in finding employment.
Before authorization from Washington could be obtained, the China' Central Committee organized, equipped and sent to
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