The Archive · 1937

Nightly Rice Bus

Salvation Army's Effort

To the Editor of the fonru-Cuina Dany News"

Si—Though hostilities have moved from the immediate vicinity of the International Settlement and the Concession, Refugees from the stricken areas are still with us and the plight of many of them desperate in the extreme.

Thousands have been received into the Refugee Camps but there are numbers of these unfortunate folks who are stil on the streets and who have to sleep in the open.

The Salvation Army in endeavour to, In some measure, ease the lot of these poor people, has arranged for a Rice Bus to every night patrol the streets where they are fo be found.

'The rice, prepared in the kitchens of one of the Army's Refugee Camps, packed in wooden buckets which serve to keep it warm and as the thus makes its rounds white' paper bags filled with the hot food are distributed to those in need.

This new branch of Relief Service we feel will serve a dus! purpose. Tt WiN serve 10 make the lot of the Refugees a little easier and at the sume time give an opportunity for Glscovering the number on the streets with a view to making adequate pro-for them in the various Refugee Camps which have been established, We hereby wish to thank all those sympathisers and well-wishers who by their gifts of cash and kind have rade this service possible.

B, Moamss.

Brigadier,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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