In this I can assure you the Association is doing good work and I may_add, certain members of the Committee, bard work. Since our last meeting here over 30 of our late comrades have been hel financially, about the same number have been found employment' From the beginning of the Associ tion more than 100 men have been assisted in this way and another 100 found some way to make their living.
Obviously little financial sistance of such a nature could done on our own resources, out of our own subscriptions; and I have to bring before your attention the addition to those grants and help already mentioned in our accounts presented last meeting, of the donation of $500 to our funds by the Shanghai A.D.C. the result of proceeds of a very excellent Vaudeville performance given last month. We are most grateful to our friends the A.D.C. and to the organizers and people who took
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