The Red Cross has also given extensive relief in Shanghai, under the direct supervision of the Shanghai Committee, while small local relief committees have been organized and supplied with smal] grants at Sianfu and Lanchowfu in western China to assist the parties of refugees coming overland from Central Asia and Russian Turkestan. Relief work has also been done with funds from this modest appropria ation at Tientsin, Changchun, and a little at Peking and Manchuria station, Everywhere special tention has been paid to the medical relief and the needs of women and children, especially in places where other organizations could. not give relief. Everywhere the foreign relief workers have laboured freely and wholeheartedly in this thankless and unsatisfying task. No offices have been established, nor salaries paid, expense allowances, even, being given only in a few special cases. In this way the modest sum of 30,000 dollars gold has been made to accomplish much more than was anticipated, the only dissatisfaction appearing to come from certain Russian organizations which had hoped for greater assistance, financial er otherwise. for their special work. They have net forgotten the very lavish expenditure of the American Red Cross in Siberia in the time of the Kolchak Government.
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