The Archive · 1937

London Relief Efforts to Include British

Appeal Does Not Apply Only to Chinese Sufferers Shanghai, Oct. 7, has now been revealed by in quiry in London that the telegram which was published in the "North-China Daily News" on October 3 and which recorded the organization of an appeal for sufferers in China by the omission of a sentence somehow falled to make {t clear that the apcovered the distress of forelgn~ 3 a8 well as Chinese, The Joint Committee of the British Chamber of Commerce and China Association (who have been meeting almost dally since the present ris! originated) have given considerable thought to this subject and have been Ju close contact with the China Association In London.

"The first Impression that the Re-Wet: Fund was confined to Chinese sufferers haa been corrected by a subsequent telegram which points out that the appeal includes British hospitals, the resources of which are breaking down, and British subjects who are in urgent need of help.

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