Moscow, Mar. 9.
On February 23, a two-seater plane belonging to a Latvian aero club in Riga, crossed the frontier and landed on Soviet territory. The flier, M. Musemnek, told the local authorities and Soviet pressmen that he left Latvia deliberately and refuses to return there—Tass.
Refugee Programme "For 73 years the Salvation Army has been at war with vice, poverty ud wrong. Directly and indirectly it has changed many of the social problems of the slums of London New York and other great cities el the world.
In Shanghai alone during the past year, despite the fact that the activities of this particular department were curtailed, the Army individually interviewed 11,989 Chinese inmates of the prisons of Shanghai."
The speaker dwelt chiefly on the huge Salvation Army war refugee programme, describing the situation at the various refugee camps and telling what is being done to lighten the burden and sufferings of the unfortunate men, women and children who hold forth at the camps.
It was explained by Brigadier Morris that the Army will ask Shanghaitanders to donate $30,000 for the work of the organization for the next 12 months, Of this sum, although the campaign has not been officially opened, several thousands dollars have been pledged, it was stated, Other speakers at the tiffin included Dr. Fong F. Sec, who praised the work of the Army here and de clared the cause to be very worthy Mr. Hans Berents, who stated that every Rotarian should rally to the support of the Army, and Mr. G. E Marden, who also was enthusiastic in his praise of the activities of the organization.
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