me excellent work by a squat of River Police late on Thursday the course of which sampan to the jetty in front of the Shanghai Club, resulted in the seizure of a. large quantity of opium and morphia and the arrest of one man, Sgt, Stanckoff and C.D.C. 20 were patrolling the Whangpoo shortly be: Fore mich, when the: noteed suspicious looking sampan coming.
rently, from the B. & S, Shang. hai Whar?, The officers hailed it as passed H.MLS. Cornwall, but the sampan did not stop. fley Wha being apart from the need of
ere was great difficalty in dedifeulty in de fegminng that ey masked Sghmand the method of determina:
employed wasa house to house peaminnioe in te vations village: Foch there was alo the dealt of given a steling of the Tndity plans he Said, was test wots but thre eiuifedo permanent Seranisation which was Not aval was coming la, prov food. for 4,500,000 families averag~ ug five persons each for one month 'oF 4,500,000 people for five months, Which should' be enough to prevent equal deaths from starvation.
Dealing with emergency relief, the speaker stated that village lists were obtained which were posted up In the villages and the distribution took place in front of the local com-
'Was paid as a percentage of repair mien, Ant Inspection, wheat Work'on private dykes actually done, Various methods were employed for labour relief, In Honan, loans were made to dyke owners; in Kiang the work was' done through the China International. Pamine. Relief Committee; and in Hupeh through the local committee. Repair of the main dykes was the only duty of the Flood Relief Commission, The whole area was divided into i8 districts and work had actually begun 14 of these.
wheat, Sir John told his hearers Reverting io the qu that: between 150,000 and 160,000 tons had already arrived, of which sally all had been despatched it. Prom the main up-river depot small. amounts s0 far been despatched to the small depots Dut the difficulty was to synchronize the arrival of consignments of wheat with the necessity of payment of labour, In north Anhui, 90,000 tons were needed for relief but the maximum possible of transportation was 30,000 tons. Arrangements fare being made for, an ex chan which transportation would avoided. It was found everywhere in practice that wheat was preferred to flour.
the commencement of operations cash allotments were made ty the various provinces and doubts had frequently been expressed as to the judicious employment of money. In fact, wherever it had bboen spent, accounts of its distribation had been audited and there were scores of boxes of relief tickets redeemed in cash now repose ing with the Audit Department in Shanghai, Inaddition, the allegations made by} the Commission were supplementary to funds raised either locally or elsewhere and earmarked for some particular province, For instance, in Honan, where the Commission allotted $212,000 and in addition to local "charity, $100,000 were subscribed by charity elsewhere and earmarked for the purchase of imillee for soup kitchens. In that province, 20 soup kitchens were in operation, said Sir John, which probably feed not less than 1,000 refugees daily, and this meant that 600,000 meals were being provided for every month, and private charity provided $220,000 for clothing.
They pulled up behind This attracted the decent Settlement police who foiles of the ten, oversa vesting hin In the meanwhile the River Police made a "thorough search. vf the sampan and discover and four catties wunting to about 140 The 15 packages. which on bei oven, reveald 364 analysed ani proved. to have a canton of 39 per cent Interrogated. at" Central police station, ascused said ths he wane nae be remenbe ers large percentage of the sever hnillons "of" subscriptions. received itas boon from Chinese sources from: boad. and the assistance received "the 'Commission from foreiga tourees has been ery small" said Siak eho stated tat he di Suite faced" were shortage of Somes, thatthe Thisty Millions Flood' Reet Bonds were not saleable; that the en pes cent. favtae brought in. about "$2000 month only: that the absolute tufsimuny expense budge: was of $5,000:000° slime dor dist and ranning expense" of works; and that here was @ desperate nee for find declared that any aula Potice relating f9 transportation, payments in kind. the enormous: ares over tee pointing out he ditelios
hich the work hat to be done and the length of the: dskee to be Tee paired, Sit John closed with a mete that "The quality of the Chine eve Gover rtalevane in the for of distress. of general ch
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