Daughters' Society have all laboured manfully. The Community Church; chiefly with funds provided by the American Red Cross, ran one soup kitchen, the French Sisters of Charity, sustained by the French Concession, another: "each supplies the destitute in its own district with one meal of soup and bread per person per day. In many, if not most, cases this is the only food these refugees get.'' In addition to the above it is only fair to emphasize that all Russians who have any means have been generous "in the support of their less well provided fellows and a list of five Russian organizations given existing purely for relief work. The question of the Cadets brought here by Admiral Stark, has always been regarded as constituting a special problem. The total number of persons under this heading amounts to 550, the cost of whose maintenance, at $6,000 a thonth, is a fair example of making a little go a long way. The Cadet Band earns something towards this but charity is the chief support. And the report adds with the early return of cool and cold weather the Corps as a whole will be in need again of clothing, boots, etc., a serious problem. Also the matter of housing is causing the Committee trouble, because the residence at present occupied by the Cadets has been sold, therefore fresh quarters have to be found for these 450 young men, a most difficult task in Shanghai, where houses, especially of any size, are rarely vacant.
As will be seen elsewhere today, Serbia has agreed to take in 500 of the cadets, if they can be sent to her. Let us hope the means which are being employed to raise the necessary money will be successful. Meanwhile there is still the question of the other refugees. The report relates how the new Refugee Committee was formed to supervise relief and prevent overlapping and it gives the following statement of its funds to date Mex. For support of Soup Kitchen vee cee By4B6,70 Housing and general purposes"... see 859.05 Maternity assistance 35.00 Repatriation (including Mex. 2,000 subscribed by the Shanghai Race Club and Mex. $1,000 by the International-Recreation Club)... 3,872.26
Mex. $8,223.01
From correspondence with Mr. Elleder, the Soviet representative in Shanghai, it is gathered that the Soviet would make no difficulty about admitting the greater part of the refugees and would even ship them back to their homes from Manchuli, if they can be transported to that point. But there would still remain a number who would not re-enter Russia and probably could not if they would.
Among this class special mention must be made of the men on board the Eldorado. They are still there, we believe, and have been for two months, 700 of them cooped up in an 800-ton ship. Dr. Nansen, in the telegram referred to above, says that he has '"'requested the Chinese Minister in London to make representations to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Peking regarding the landing and assistance of refugees of the Eldorado.'' But nobody in this part of the world need be told that that means nothing. The circumstances in which the Eldorado came. to Chekiang waters were related in our issue of August 15. There is, of course, more in the story than could then be told as it involves
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