Ten Thousand Sheltered Tu Hangchow Camps Fur the past three months, the Chekiang: War Refugees Relief Commission has done a preat'deal tu the humanitarian task of providing food and shelter to about 10,000 Chinese war refugees in its relief camps Hangchow.
In the month of October alone, the commission took in some 4,680 home= fess and destitute persons' from. the war areas, Established some time in the middle of August after the outbreak of the Shanghai war, the commission headed by a Mr. Chen Lin-yun, of the—Chekiang-Shanahai""Opium-Suppression Bureatt. Mr, Chen recent ly returned from a two-year investigation {our to Europe and America, Besides caring for the refugees, the commission also operated a. hospital for wounded civilians, During the fen days from Oclober 21 to 31, the hospital took' in some 60 persons, wounded during the Jananese al raids over Mangehow. Oizhteen. of them have now recovered. while eight succumbed to their inkuris, The refugees are kept busy all dav. They ave given trainiye in handicraft industries such as making gloves, <chors and rons. Child retunees uro taught to read and write by students the Hanechow Normal School. Feueational films and nding are sunolied for their entertainment, 'The commission also seeks empiov= ant far the have rfuseos under its So far more than 80 Fefwsees five' jobs m various
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