Mr. Z. U. Kwauk has broadcasted an eloquent appeal to the generosity of the public in Shanghai for financial support to the International Red Cross Society of which Dr. J. E. Baker is the Director at 505 Honan Road (4th floor), Dr. Baker will gladly receive donations on behalf of the Society whose needs have been lucidly and effectively expounded by Mr. Kwauk, At this moment Shanghai has special reason to reinforce its sympathy for the refugees as large accessions have been made to their numbers as the result of recent developments. Care for the refugees is not the only preoccupation of the Red Cross important though it is. Mr. Kwauk has shown that the Society has carried out the rescue of non-combatants and combatants from the fighting zone, often at great risk to its workers. It has assisted in the evacuation and repatriation of refugees of whom 250,000 have been con: veyed out of Shanghai by water and land under the auspices of the Relief Commission of the City Government, the Ningpo Guild, who between them are estimated to have accounted for 225,000 of that number. Other means of evacuation have increased the total to something like 400,000. The treatment of wounded Chinese soldiers has been greatly handicapped by lack of funds, and medical supplies, particularly anaesthetics. Here again there is urgent need for further support, Two charity burial institutions by combining operations with the Relief Commission have done magnificent work in arranging for the burial of the poor. Over 25,000 dead have been provided with individual coffins as the result of these efforts. Mr. Kwauk's appeal has stressed the difficulties and dangers which have been faced by the workers in this admirable civic service. It has Been roughly estimated that the actual number of refugees is over 1,000,000. Of them Mr. Kwauk divides Big Ching! Big Ching!
Let me tell you one thing, We miss the sound Of your chimes ding-dong-ding.
Is it because in this soldiers' furore, Which most of us say is, after all, war, You've decided, at least for a time, to surcease From tolling the hours until Time can bring peace?
Big Ching! Big Ching! Now be a good thing, And tell us the time. So Big Ching! Please ring-
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