Tu response to urgent appeals for help the Chinese Foreign Famine Relic? Committee has granted an additional sum of approximately $200,000 for immediate relief in the provinces of Kiangsu and Anhui. Money is given to the sub-committees, which are mostly under the supervision of Catholic and Protestant missionaries, wherever food can still be bought in the adjacent districts but more than half the sum will be sent in the form of food.
Very few are aware perhaps that a very extensive area in the districts of Yencheng, Taichow. and Huaian is still under water or otherwise unfit for immediate sowing. Thousands and thousands are starving and homeless. The Shanghai public has given very freely to the funds but the need is far from being adequately met.
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