Number Totals Approximately 130,000
Geneva, Oct. 8.
The question of refugees from other countries residing in. China was raised yesterday by Mr. Lin Chieh, Chinese delegate, at a meeting'of the League of Nations Cor mittee on Social and "Humanitarian Affairs. The number of such refugees, mostly Ruslan, now in China amounts to approximately 130,000, Mr. Lin declared, On February 12, this year, the Humanitarian' Committee voted a credit of 15,000 Swiss francs for sending a mission to the Far East, charged with the task of studying the question of Russian refugees China and Manchuria, thus adopting 4 proposal made by M. Hanson, temporary President of the Nansen International Office for Refugees.
The investigating body, however, has not yet been appointed, due 10 the fact that the credit must be approved by a two-thirds "majority of the League Commission on the Control of Finances, which has not yet taken action on the matier.—Havas.
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