That the intelligence department of the American Marines since their in China has acted in keeping with the standards of the service goes without saying, but at Christmas a particular intelligence department functions most thoroughly in ferreting out cases of actual need and providing for the wants of the less favoured.
During the past ten days scouts scoured throughout the International Settlement, through the highways and byways, thoroughly (imbued with the motto, "The poor ye have with you always," and recorded numerous instances of desperate want.
Preparations having been made, early yesterday morning Marine trucks were sent to the homes and hovels occupied by the unfortunates. One foreign woman, the mother of nine, the entire family sleeping on the floor was overcome and burst into tears, when two husky men in uniform knocked on dragged into the room a ing over 200 1 tained flour, mber" bacon, beef, spices, warm ch assortment of food, d a general sufficient for several weeks.
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