Mr. Herbert Phillips was able to make a welcome announcement to the Committee of the Royal Society of St. George in expounding the steps taken *to effect liaison between British charitable organizations here and the Mansion House Fund, a portion of which is to be allocated to British hospitals and British subjects in distress. The formation of a strong Central Executive Committee—over which it is understood that Mr. Phillips himself will find time to preside—will duly ensure that the needs of the various societies which concern themselves with the assistance of British Shanghailanders will be sympathetically considered and practically met, The work of those organizations has greatly increased in the last few weeks. The funds at their disposal have been strained to vanishing point; even so large 4 society as that which Mr. Phillips addressed is now on the wrong side of its passbook. No doubt local effort will be steadily directed toward raising more funds for the emergency, but substantial aid will have to be forthcoming from outside. To that end the measures announced by Mr. Phillips should be well applied.
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