Washington, Jan. 26, The American Red Cross announced here to-day that Mr. Nelson 7, John-Json, American Ambassador to China, and Mr. Clarence B. Gauss, Consul General in Shanghai, had been appointed respectively honorary presi dent and vice-president of the Red Cross in China for the administration of the $1,000,000 relief find to be raised in the United States for Chinese refugees in war-torn areas of China.
Major Arthur Bassett, director of the British-American Tobacco Ca, was appointed chairman of the Amer= can committee 10 administer the relief fund.
Members of the Commitice which will assist in directing expenditures Charles R. Bennett, American banker; Dr. J. Earle Baker, the China International Famine Relief Commission; Commander W.
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