Our leading article elsewhere, on the need of a central organization to which funds from Shanghai might be sent, and which would allocate the money to the best. advantage and publish accounts of its use, has brought us a visit from Mr. Yeh, honorary secretary of the Shanghai Committee, who points out that the) advice ig excellent, but that, as there are no fewer than 18 different' famine relief organizations in Peking, it is slightly difficult to know which to choose. Well, of those eighteen we may imagine that the vast majority are absolutely negligible, and it ought not to be impossible to get the remainder to combine. That at any rate appears to ug the policy for which Shanghai might press and that with no inconsiderable weight, for a good deal of money has already gone from Shanghai and much more may be expected. That is one point. The other is the need of giving the most efficacious help to millions of starving Chinese and that will not} be done so well by many independent committees as by one centralized body. Such an_ institution, also, would have the greatest influence in putting pressure on Govern-' ment to release much-needed rolling-stock and. stop the depredations of bandit-soldiers. We gather that'
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