To the Editor of the "Nontu-Cuixa DAiwy News."
Sin,—1. In your leading Editorial, "Red Cross in China," of Ostober 6, you say: there are two Red:
American and the Chinese, where-the field, the fas there should be only one."
2, May I request you to publish the following from i letter of me structions dated September 27 and sent to all Chapters of the American Red Cross in China:—
"Acting upon the instructions. of our Chairman, Mr. J. Harold Dollar, notice is hereby given that no Chapters of the American Red Cross are at liberty to engage in belief work of any kind among soldiers or civilians in the name of the American Red Cross.
Where such work has already been begun arrangements are immediately to be undertaken for u transfer of the work to some other organization.
"As a China Central Committee of the American Red Gross and conforming to our instructions from Washington we strongly recommend that wherever possible whatever Red Cross work is une dertaken should be done under the name and direction of the Red Cross Society of China, In local ities where Ohapters of the Red Cross Socivty of China do not exist or have not been properly organized to deal with the emer= ency' in question, American Red Cross Chapters may-_make other arrangements. But even under such clremetances Chapters of the American Red Cross are not to organize and send other work with= fieat notifying the China Control Comaittese, which may the matter up with the Committee of the Red China, Dee yelutionships between the American Red Cross and the Red Cross China ave now within the jurisdic tion of the individual Chapters of the respective Sovietien, but rest with the Centeal Committee of the Red Cross Society of China and the China Central Committee of the American Red Crovs "The above is not to be inter proted as involving anything other than the name of the Amer-tean Red Cross. Officially we have no jurisdiction over the acts of American citizens who desire to render assistance either indivi dually or in groups under what~ fever auspices may seem to them desirable excepting in ease of the American Red Cross."
3. The Nanking Ohapter of the American Red Cross is the only one <hieh, to out knowledge, has under taken' relief work, We have been ied that this work was for <enly, but it was begun at the specific request of the Chinese wutherities at Nanking before, the ut of the above instructions.
thins it is safe to say that by this arrangements have been effected for a transfer of the work to other auspices.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.