Kaifeng, Mar. 19.
General Chu Ching-lan, Chairman of the National Famine Relief Commissioner, who arrived here yeslerday from Shanghai with several other philanthropists. to assist in relief Work in Honan province, to-day sent a telegram to Nanking requesting Dr.
H. Kung, Minister of Finance, to appropriate $400,000 for relief work General Chu also disclosed that the Honan Provincial Government has thus far allotted $1,100,000 for relief work in the province.
Another telegram was sent Shanghai asking Mr. Tu. Yueh-sen, Prominent Chinese banker and Mr. Wang Hsiao-lai, Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, and other Chinese leaders, to raise another fund for the same purpose Central News.
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