In accordance' with a resolution passed by the Executive Committee of the China International Famine Relief Commission stating that famine, pestilence and dire disorder will certainly result if the present emergency is not met, the Shantung Provincial Committee of the Commission has recently appropriated a sum "of $3,000 for relief of some 20,000 war refugees in Tsinan, another sum of $2,000 for war relief in Chang Chin and Chi Tung, and another of the same amount for distribution among needy refugees in Po Shan and Tze Ch'uan, According to investigation made by the Shantung Provincial, Committee, the majority of the 20,000 refugees in Tsinan are persons out of employment due to war conditions, The second in number are refugees from neighbouring war districts, the third, flood refugees from neighbouring hsiens, and last, ordinary poor people,
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