Washington, May 31.
The American Committee, which raised $4,776,487 as a China famine fund and expended $3,859,- 013 for relief in that country several years ago, asked the District of Columbia Supreme Court to-day to approve a proposal +o turn over the balance of $917,474 tothe Nanking and Peking Universities for* the study of famine causes and their prevention and relief.
The committee, which was organized under a proclamation by President Wilson in 1920, raised the fund in all parts of the United States.—Reuter.
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