Tt cannot be forgotten first place that this appeal e from a centre wh of Soviet money. the successful endeavour to stir up race animosities, with nent ruin of—commeres when the Revolution took place and Hankow was burnt, the first appeal to the foreign com: munity there provided practically} all the money that was needed to} supplement the work of the Chinese Red Cross Hospitals, and. those of us who were there know how readily. the Chinese merchants contributed 0 that no second appeal to the foreign community was necessary. It is solely the fault of the Han-Kow Government that neither the local foreign ox Chinese community in in a position to meet this need now.
Nor can it be forgotten that further large sums of money have been drawn from Russian sources: and extorted from the Chinese mersonal west oF ther alleged inter. est in the movement, no appeal need have been made abroad.
Another criticism that can be levelled against this appeal is that it does not indicate that steps will be taken to prevent any monies which are contributed from being used for military or propagandist Purposes, Tt does mention co-opera tion with the "official Chinese Y. Mf, A." but that is a body lacking in the elements of permanence. One outstanding fact oont the Communist party is that they have most of the Y.M.C.A. pro-Cross) perties the area under" tacit control, and there is no guarantee that they will not close the Hankow one as well. At the time of the Revolution 'a properly organized conimittee was established before the first appeal was sent out and the bankers and auditors were! known to those who contributed, The Use of Foreign Missionaries Hankow is not the only centre where the wounded lie untended. It] happens, to be the one remaining Jcentre in the Yangtze Valley where foreign missionaries can be found and used to issue an appeal. If. no appends are cabled from other scenes of misery it is because those [who are raul friends of the Chinese live been driven away. And funds are to be raised in the homelands for the relief of suffering in Chinn, there no reason why they' should be remitted to the centre where the so-called Nationalist Government has its headquarters and where military funds must be abundantly plentiful. They might her be used in places where other suffering victims of the present unrest are to be found, 'The day for pleading that "charity begins at home" has gone by, but one cannot forget that there' are here in Shanghai hundreds of re-{ugee missionaries who have sustain. fed great losses and thousands " of members of the Defence Force who badly need comforts of many kinds, while Chinese students "axe to-day, stopping passers-by on the streets of the Foreign Settlement and collecting money for the Nationalist cause? "Why cannot this money be sent to Hankow for Red Cross work among the men who have been Wounded in the cause in which the students are interested instead of, being squandered in further warfare while Red Cross Funds are chants. in Hankow, Kiukiang and other places for the mnaintenanee and oguipmont of the Chinese Nationalist army. Why has this army been sunt forward to face the best trained Northern troops without any pro-Vision being made for base _hos-And with these collected from simple-hearted persons in other lands?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.