The China Central Committee has received a request from Mr. J. E. Baker, director of American Red Cross Famine Relief in North China for personnel to assist in supervising the road-building and distribution of food to the labourers employed.
The American Red Cross is anxious to recruit volunteers as far as possible, for every dollar saved in salaries means many more famine sufferers saved from starvation, and besides the service requires more self sacrifice and more enthusiasm than the ordinary paid employee is willing to give.
The Red Cross will provide travelling expenses, food and quarters during the term of enlistment which they are willing to accept from two to six months, the immediate future being the most important. The road- building headquarters are in Techow, and the work may result in building a highway through to a point on the Peking-Hankow Railway.
During these dull times Shanghai Companies may feel they could contribute the services of one or more of their staff with less inconvenience than a straight contribution to relief funds, and if such is the case the A.R.C. will welcome contributions of personnel. All volunteers are requested to send in a written application to the China Central Committee, 18p Kiangse Road, briefly stating their qualifications and references,
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