Hankow, Oct. 1.
An appeal for fnaneal controuwill be impossible to restore Normal peace and order and" seer:
"It is therefore earnestly hoped that the various people's organien. tions, philanthropic societies and wealthy citizens will take the lead collecting' and vomitting' contributions "fo our Headquarters {hat funds may be distributed. to the various stricken areas. tecort. ing to the urgency of their needs "All shoul realise that to save others is to save one's self, "and that'at such acmement of national unrest, family' interests "must. be subordinated fo those of the nation.
"It is not merely out of pity that one should open his purse for the succour of hie neighbours, Tt isa bounden duty.
"What is most deplorable spite of the ever-growing gra Aty of nationed crises, the laudable Factice of economy and' frugality als been on the decline, "While the poverty-stricken inhabitants: {he "rural" villages. are suffering from the direct physical ons, those in the big cities have become tore Toxurious snd' extravagant. If'such a state of affairs is allowed to continue unrectified, the "nation would be hastening to its extine- 9 tion, even were there no aggressions from without, "It is also. hops ous schools, organ women's organist trips to the various stricken tricts to inspect the actual cor tions obtaining there and to devise The soldiers blocked communications land forced their into the editorial office, saying. that the editors had ingulfed Me. Chin and Punish the editors, that they had received orders "to Waving pistols and big. swords, the soldiers rough handled Messrs, Li Keng-Lu Ching-fu and Chu Tien-hong and bound them, attempting carry them police arrived on the seen ithe police took the three editor into custody, Later the soldiers raided the "yi Shih Pai premises, but fortunately the editors had toft before their arriv of the four months during wan inthe hands OE tie Come The Chinese which Sept. 27. Association has_addressed. a tel from, fo the. Central "Kuomintang, National Government, the Cin: thy trol "Yuan, the National Militays that they Council and. General Chiang Kal ral Ho Ying-ching, were all volunteer workers in this heh and Gene erging the pun ment of Mr. Chin area, yet the exploit of these two representative of men' ix worthy of special mention.
General "Sung. Cheh-yun who is On the occasion of the negotiations alleged to have inti which led (0 Captain Baker's release lon the offices of the these men grete employed as emi the "YP Shih Pao" 1 saries wit the Communist headters. On the last Sunday The telegram says that Mr. Chin May the negotiations were within snot only oily of reich foot "the. principle of the. freedom the peace but has trampled under Baker was brought to be handed over he prose and. hereby violated to members of the Flood Relief the fun da mental awe of the land. Commission who were waiting with "The message concludes by urging launch to bring him to safety.—the Government to punish Mr. Chine At the last moment something—Reuter.
10,000 houses collapsed' and about 3.000 heads of cattle were drowned. The total number of refugees ex: ceeds 77,000—Kuo Min,
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