The Dean pointed out that the sources of the various relief funds would give rise to difficulty in the future, for whereas some societies had backing outside of Shanghat there were needy sections of society which must rely upon local effort only unless some arrangement other than that which exists can be arrived at, It was as yet too early, he said, to'state how funds coming from over= seas could be administered. He stressed the difficulties facing those who had no national: representation in_this city.
It was explained at the meeting that some sources of relief are al-Feady almost frozen, and one case cited was of an orphanage housing over 100 children which, unless relief 3 shortly obtained, the' unhappy inmates will have to be sent back to undesirable homes, Those present at Friday's meeting were: Dean Trivett in the chair, Mr.
S. Speyer, secretary, Mrs, M. P. Campos, Mr. H. Kammerling, Miss Johnson, Mrs. M. Carleton, M. Jaspar, Maj. C, Begley, Mrs. L. Giles, Mr. Metzler, Mrs. E. Colter, Mr. D. M. Gutteres, Mrs, OF, Hardman, Mrs.
Bettison, Mr. J. E. Baker, Mr. A. Pullen, Mrs, D. Riggs, and Mr. EH, Adams, riflemen yesterday kept shooting at these ports in the hope of bringing down the soldiers inside and of enlarging the holes so much as to make them useless as rifle ports. Their continued"attack on the holes made clouds of red dust cly from the building,
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