The Central Executive Committee which has been. constituted in Shanghai under the chairmanship of His Majesty's Constl-General to dear with the affairs of the British Fund for Relief in China is concerned with the allocation of appropriate financial assistance to various relict organizations including these dealing with the refugee problem, the hospitals, Red Cross and also with distress among British and other for= eigners. Applications for relief have been invited and, after scrutiny with the object of deciding which society can best handle each individual case, action" on them is accordingly taki, Though the Conunittee is not making any local appeal the Hon, Treasurer, Mr, G. tion, is ready to receive contributions to, the! funds at the disposal of the committee. The Committee acts as distributor of such funds as are available to the organizations which a directly administering measures of relict. It is obviously impossible for the Committee to act as a primary agency of relief, Moreover any. such attempt on its part would weaken the efforts now being made to prevent overlapping and to establish a satisfactory system of ce" ordination in the interests of deserving causes
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