New York, June 17, Seven thousand New Yorkers attended "bowl of rice" parties tonight (o. raise money for civilian relief in China while an estimated million were believed to have patticipated in similar programmes in all parts of the country bringing receipts to a predicted U.S $10,000,000.
Mr, Theodore Roosevelt, head of the United Couneit for Civilian Relief in China which sponsored the cam-alan, read a message from Madame Chiang Kai-shek outlining the tremendous relict problem resulting from war and floods.
"The woes of floods are now being Jadded in the north to those of opium Jand other diabolic devices of death that the Japanese are using," the message from Madame Chiang' read, "The floods obstruct our troops. in outflanking the invaders and destroy {tugitive Chinese to make room for the colonization of our earth by the Jepanese who already are descending, on our farms like locusts.
From all directions homeless chil-Jdren are pouring in. For these help-ess crowds we must make increasing, ision."—United Press.
Jepanese war elicited the widespread Leliet in Congressional sources that the Philippines might be menaced by Japanese territorial" expansion United Press, U.S. War Marterial Export to Japan King's Gustay's 80th Birthday Stockholm, June 10, 'More than 100,000 visitors have arrived here for the national cele-rations in connection with the Both birthday anniversary today of King' Gustav V, the oldest reigning monarch in the worl King Christian of Denmark, King Haakon of Norway and Mr, Kyosti Kallio, President of Finland, were among the guests.—Reuter, Washington, June 16, The resentment of peace crganizations which recently" made representations to the State Department against American ald to the Japanese war machine mounted yesterday in the light of the Latest figures to be wade public.
These show that the United States exported in April a total of 78,000,000 1b. of copper of which approximately 000,000 1b. was consigned to Japan, 414,000,000 to Great Britain, and 5,000,- (00 to Germany.
The total of 32,000,000 Ib. represents the greatest quantity of this essential war material yet to be exported to Jepan—Reuter,
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