The Archive · 1937

Hospital Supplies Carried Free by Shipping Firms

BRITISH MEDICAL AID FOR CHINA

London, Oct. 27.

Of the Lord Mayor's ' Fund, the executive "is spending £10,000 on drugs, dressings and instruments for immediate despatch by vessels of the Blue Funnel and Glen Lines, which, fare freighting them free. The sum of £5,000 will be cabled to the China relief organization.

The Lord Mayor of London has.received messages from the Mayors of Shanghai and Nanking expressing deep gratitude for the efforts being made in the City of "London and. throughout Great Britain to raise funds for the relief of distress in China, 'The' corporation and members of ILioyds has sent £5,000 as a first con-{tribution to the Lord Mayor's fund. This splendid donation brings the Fund to over the £30,000 mark.— an effort to end the Sino-Japanese conflict by agreement.

It is taken for granted that Count Ciano, the Foreign Minister, will not}

Count Marescotti is an om cial the Foreign Office. He specializes on Far Eastern affairs, and was Mahan representative on the Lytton Committee which went to Manchoukuo in.

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