On September 4, as Acting Chairman; I. decided ' to re-open the Yooms, and with temporary closures, when "hostilities became too intense, they remained open for those few 10 whom they could be of service, In thig connection, F would like to refer with gratitude' to the splendid help of Mrs. A. C. Godby during those uncertain days.
On September 8, an emergency committee of seven met at Headquarters to discuss relief work, and at this meeting Mrs. J. C. Wynnes was appointed acting vice chairman, This Committee felt that any Jarge gathering of women at Headquarters Would be most unwise and constitute 'a source of additional anxiety to the: authorities, and for this reason it was decided to discourage any consider fable 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 usp. Tess work for the Association to form small and circumscribed organiza tion of its own. A notice was published asking British women willing to help in any work which might eeome 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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