Locroart, Vicar Apostolic of The following letter from Bishop
S. E. Chihli, Sienhsien, Nov. 4, is -sent us by the Lazarist Fathers The widespread distress and the scanty means at my disposal have forced me to diminish the sum allotted to each starving person out of the Committee's funds for this section of the country. To each child attending our schools, we now give only 5 cents per day, that is, one dollar per month, because our missionaries are overwhelmed with demands for help.
Out of the $5,000 assigned by the Committee for' old women's orphan girls' homes I have given $1,000 to Father Simon Li for the asylum referred to in the subjoined letter.
Working together with the mav-darin and the ministers, we are dis-
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