The Archive · 1933

Housing the Poor Gen. He Ying-chin, Minister of

War, contributed. 15480 suits of soldier's shirts for the relief of famine and flood victims of. this province while the Yellow River Relief Commission recently sent. 20,000 cotton suits of clothes for the same purpose. Just recently, £0 intense has the influx become of refugees from areas ruined by the floods that the local Public Safety Bureau took over a number of vacant houses in the outskirts of the Bishop W. C. White of the Canadian Church' Mission, who is 63 years of age and has served in the mission here for more twenty yeats, is shortly to retire, It ig understood that apart from his own failing health, the health of Mrs, White from nervous disorders, is such that it has prompted the beloved pastor to make up his mind to leave almost immediately.

Opinion locally favours and hopes that Dr. G. E. Simmons may de selected as Dr. White's successor. jolty for the housing of these poor Dr.

Simmons Was the founder of people

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