The National Child Welfare Association of China, during the year under review, exerted its utmost efforts to relieve the stranded children under the sway, of famine, and other forms of misfortune work might be reg authorities, and for this reason it was decided to discourage any considerable gathering there. It was felt, further, with regard to relief work. that in view of the fact that, with the vast number of British women and children who had left Shanghai.! practically all the needy British people had also gone, it would be a useless work for the Association to form a small and circumscribed organization of its own. A notice was published asking British women willing to help in any work which might become necessary to send in their names and addresses. Thirty-two women answered this notice during the course of the next week, and, of these, 20 were members of the Association. Remembering normal membership was about one thousand, this would give some idea of the extent to which ranks were depleted.
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