We have received from the Rev. D. MoGillivray p.v., Honorary Secretary of the Relief Committee, the following letters for publication Mr. G, P. Bostick, under date of February 8, writes from Pochow The Chow magistrate and the local gentry have given their enthusiastic attention, and their help has been most valuable," It would have been well nigh impossible for the work to have been done without them. On some of the busy days, there were not less than a hundred persons on the scene and busy, counting local officials, gentry, foreigners, the Shanghai representatives and soldiers, with those who were handling the grain or money. Thus I have been made to see that the task that we now have on us is far greater} than I had ever before thought sssessuee
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