An Appeal for Help: Distress Among Flood Sufferers The following is an extract from a letter received by a resident in Shanghai: "I want to ask you if you can help us here in Korea with our relief work among the Koreans?" I mean, of course, The British Women's Association. The distress is awful among the frood sufferers. The people, hundreds of them, are living in dug-outs, many] without any warm clothing or food. 'The Ladies' Club is doing a splendid work making padded covers to keep] the poor things from freezing these eeld nights. The Japanese are ving something, as well as the Koreans, those who can help, but] it only seems like a drop in the bucket among so much suffering. Yesterday in visiting some dugouts, as many people, children, too, were huddled together without "hes or clothing (apart things) or rice. One or two groups seemed so hopeless that they did not take any notice when help was offered. The com: mittee has had a. ready response from people in Japan, and I, knowing how kind the B.W.A. is, said I would write and ask if you' centd spare a few things for us here. I know how great is your need in Shanghai, but the poverty hers} seems so much worse than it has ever been before. Anything in the way of old clothing will be accept-'The people are glad to get anything to cover themselves. 1 have been' using up. old curtains, covers, and summer dresses and making them into bags padded with) cotton wool to help out. If any] tone will send old clothes and the like to me, and mark them Relict Work, they will come in free."
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