The Archive · 1921

The Shanghai Merchant's Point of View

Following on Friday's successful mass meeting and Sunday's parade, canvassers representing the 22 relief organizations on Monday began their house to house collection and remained hard at, work throughout the day. At night they were able to report good results at Headquarters, one of the earliest arrivals announcing over $6,000 as the receipts for the day. It is estimated that Shanghai's contributions to date total over $5,000,000, whilst other sums of money are known to have been sent to the North which have not gone through the hands of the famine relief societies.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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