Tientsin, Oct. 15.
It is understood that the Tientsin Relief Committee received $100,000 yesterday from Shanghai. This is presumed to be an allocation of the $275,000 appropriated by the Shanghai organization for famine relief.
This illustrates the difficulty under which the Committee here is labouring through incomplete' cooperation with Peking, because the Committee is uncertain how funds are coming in and being distributed." Consequently, there is a danger of some districts being overlapped and others neglected.
The Relief Committee yesterday forwarded 3,000 bags of grain and $25,000 in cash to. Tsangchow, as distributing centre.
It is felt at present that few officials in the famine area can be relied on. Consequently food and funds are being sent to missionaries, who can ce-operate with local officials, while keeping a tight hand on the purse-strings.
A prominent committee-man_ expresses the opinion that the funds are not coming in here as quickly as had been hoped, considering the famine as at our very doors, but a bigger campaign is being developed next week.—Reuter.
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