Th the course of the next few days the British 'Women's Association will Issue' their annual appeal to members for support for their Social Service Board. In that appeal the executive committee of the association draws attention of members to the fact that the general situation in Shanghai is worse than it has bbeen, at any other time in its history, and must deteriorate for some time to come. 'The Social Service Board has no regular income and has depended upon rants from the Shanghai Race Club and the British Chamber of Commerce and private donations, and in view of present conditions it is feared' that the supply of funds from these sources may diminish. "As it they are inadequate to meet all. the needs of the Board in paying school fees, mille and Subsistence allowances to various families and old ladies who have no other means of support. As an initial effort in the drive for funds fu entertainment is being given at the Country Club on Friday which it Is hoped will be thoroughly well supported, Shanghai haa done splendidly in the matter of subscribing to the various funds for the relist of suffering China and the British community no less well than others, but members of the B.W.A, are reminded that much as they have given in response to other appeals that which Is now addressed to comes closer home with " increased polgancy. The magnitude of the suffering Which the Chinese are enduring should not blind British eyes to the actions of an_unhappily large section of their own community, and if demands this year are groater than they have been in the past. and oven if the ability to respond has been decreased, yot It is earnestly Lurged that a special endeavour should be made to-make sure that the Social Service Board Is in receipt of sufleient of the wherewithal to perform its much needed work of merey.
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