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It is more than a year now since it was first suggested in the press that conditions existed in Shantung that might warrant a drive America for famine relief funds, Vitis nearly a year since a com! was formed in -\merica to organize tthe drive and make itself responsible for the funds and since interested persons were locally deputed to set out and famine, But it has only been within the past few weeks that a committee of responsible ye China has agreed to receive funds from Ameriew and allot them to aillieted areas if any found in which "famine technical sense, exists and if, in genuine famine areas, the Chinese Government shows interest enough the distress of the people to eradicate banditry, so that the ietims can he reached, remove taxes food stuffs and the transport of food, and contribute to some degree '40 relief on its own account.
Washington, nor by the America Red Cross Society. I endorsed by a of the several Chinese Governments then existing, an
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