Financial Aid With over 6,000 flood refugees to be cared for, plus new daily arrivals until the end of "this month, the Chinese authorities are finding' that they have insufficient means of thei disposal to carry on their work 30 they have' decided "that the only way out of the difficulty is to give temporary relief and then repatsiate the refugees." In order to. do this, however, it will be necessary to raise funds to meet the repatriac tion" expenses so. the Municipality of Greater Shanghai has requested the Municipal Council the French Municipal authorities. jointly to contribute $50,000 to $40,000 to enable the repatriation to" be Proceeded with. In the absence of articulars as' to income and. ex-Fenditure the Shanghai" Municipal neil has contributed is. 10,000 towards the immediate needs of the refugees.
At the meeting of the Shanghai Municipal Council on Wednesday, 1t was decided to contribute the sum of Tls. 10,000 towards the immedi-te needs of flood "refugees Shanghai. The Chairman reported that the Municipality of Greater Shanghai had. requested that the Municipal Council. and. the French Municipal authorities should jointly contribute the. sum" of $50,000 to $60,000 to enable the repatriation of Fefugees from the flooded areas to be proceeded with. As the Council had! not been called upon to carry out its undertaking) to. donate proximately Tls. 70,000 towards cost of erection of a refugee camp, the, 'Treasurer' recommended that, in the ence of particulars as contribu tion of Tis, 10,000 be authorized to neet immediate needs, The despatch received from the Muni ighai enclosed a report the Oflice for Flood Refugees, in which it was stated that $30,000 which the office had in hand was insufficient to meet. the ex: penses of maintaining over -6,000 refugees, plus new daily arrivals until the end of November, when the ofice would be closed. The only way out of the difficulty, the report said, was to give temporary relief and then to repatriate the refugees, but, to do this, it would be neces ary to raise fands for repatriation expenses.
"At the 8th general meet when the question of refugees came up, it was mentioned that. the Couneit had intended to appropriate Tls. 70,000 towards the construc-affording relict to refugees conter was dropped. As the matter of cerns the peace and safety of. Shanghai as a whole, the separate authorities should ea-operate and each section should fulfil a part of the obligation. Accordingly, it was decided at the meeting that the Municipality. of Greater Shanghai be communicated with and asked a nen a sixty thousand dollars to enable this The despatch from the Acting. a coe an tach cat cat
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