The Archive · 1933

DISTRESS IN ENGLAND Generosity to Missions

To the Editor of the "Nonmi-Cumwa Datty News" uereTappebes an article vrily Sin-—In your issue of, July 28, describing the Grim Secrets of the Thames Embankment and the galant struggle of the New Poor against "poverty, and unemoley, ment. On An A Reothers. 00 weak to Aid Children" reference is made to the bury where one out of every ten hardship and "poverty of, the children born there. during 992 died before reaching the age of one year and the important pont fo note is that almost one in three fof the deaths. is due. to. deficient fritality at birth, Again on August appear another article on the New Poor of London where Officer: and Men who fought in the Great War are struggling for an, existence in the Country they helped to defend, But in your issue of August 4, there appears a different story for despite economic. depression gratifying continuance. from the home countries is recorded for the China Inland "Mission, No less a sum than £140,518; 9: 7 is reported to have been received by the Obin Inland Mission of which £65,97¢ 11: 2, was from Great Britain and 315: 7; 11. from North America, drawing of such vast sums annually from countries with their own tragic problems does not seem easy to reconcile, Loate. Tsingtao, Sept. 5.

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