Benefit London, Dec. 5.
Four hundred persons, representing administrative, professional and business life in Birmingham, sat down today to a "self-denial dinner" at the Town Hall for the benefit of Chinese relief funds.
The affair was organized by the Edgbaston branch of the League of Nations Union. Sir Patrick Hannen, Conservative M.P. for the Moseley division of Birmingham, presided, while the Chinese Ambassador, Mr.
[Quo Tai-chi, was the principal guest.
Many watched the proceedings at 6d. per head from the gallery.
The menu consisted of the simplest Chinese fare.
Mych amusement was caused by the efforts of the diners to handle chop sticks, which were specially sen' from China and were retained by the diners as souvenirs after paying 6d. apiece.
Mr. Quo Tai-chi's chop-sticks were auctioned for £2.
New York, Dec. 4.
Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese Ambassador to the United States, speaking before a large audience at the Harmonie Club here tonight named Japan "The World's Public Enemy Number One among the Family of Nations," and appealed for world-wide economic sanctions to curb Japanese aggression in China.
The Chinese Ambassador said that China did not expect other nations io join in military activities against Japan.
"But China does feel that the sense of justice and the feeling of common humanity," he went on, "may yet prove strong enough to move men and women of the democratic, peace-loving nations to halt the present inhuman traffic of supplying weapons of war and essential raw materials for the manufacture of weapons of war to a nation which has been unanimously condemned by over fifty nations as a violator of solemnly pledged treaties and a breaker of world peace."
Dr. Hu said that China's hopes for an ultimate victory were based on expectations that, firstly, China would continue to fight as she has been fighting heretofore, and secondly, that "the time may come when the international situation fay turn in her favour against her enemy."
The Ambassador said that China under present conditions was "literally bleeding to death." He said that on the field of battle China had suffered nearly two million casualties. In addition she has lost vast territories including "all cities generally known to the outside world as centres of commerce, industry, education and modern culture."
Two-thirds of China's universities have been either destroyed, occupied by Japanese troops or otherwise disabled, Dr. Hu pointed out, while he estimated the number of direct Civilian sufferers at 60,000,000—United Press.
In a speech, the Chinese Ambassador paid a tribute to the generous enthusiasm for the Chinese cause shown in Birmingham, where, he said, many working parties continually made clothes for Chinese refugees while a steady stream of financial aid flowed in.
The Ambassador declared that he had no doubt that, whatever happened, China one day would be able to re-lum the sympathy shown her by British friends.
The poet, Mr. W. H. Auden, who recently returned from a tour of China, vividly described China's efforts to organize herseif—Reuter.
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