But a serious effort is being made to provide a better outlook for the New Year whereby these refugees may be organized into work centres with better living conditions, better food and better pay, thus enabling them to look forward in the spring to returning to their homes or even to rented quarters with a small accus mulation of capital of their own and an industry or occupation in which they may continue to earn their living.
It is hoped to describe subsequently in more detail the extensive plans with the large force of able volunteers, for breaking the present tendency to exploitation and for bringing io these refugees brighter hopes for the Chinese New Year.
Photographs illustrating this article appear on p. 7 of the accompanying magazine.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.