The Archive · 1925

The New Policy in Famine Relief

Promotion of Labour and Series of Loans: Free Giving Unremunerative Secretary of the China International Mr, W. H, Mallory, Executive Famine Relief Commission, issued the followings statement Owing to the many ingui which are received revealing the Jack of knowledge on the part of the general public of the methods work of the China International far Excess the reeonrees of the Commission.

The Commivsion has been vee: sionally advised to. give mp its! modern policy and revert to che old method of distributing all funds at. its disposal on a free relief basis Min accordance with the intentions: Jof the subscribers," but the members have not been convinced that a. person who has contributed a for famine relief would prefer that it should be distributed on a free relief basis, when it might be used over and over again by the loan plan, and each time be made to work' more effectively than on the old time Tt would appear that the only excuse for the abandonment of the

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