The Central Executive Committee of the British Fund for Relief in China have Issued the following. statement of their activities, covering 8 period of over two months, in connection with the Lord Mayor's Fund for the relief of distress in China.
The Central Executive Committee was formed in Shanghai with His Majesty's Ambassador to China and the Governor of Hongkong as Joint Presidents and with Mr. Herbert Phillips, His Majesty's Consul General, as Chairman, In order to deal with the proper distribution funds, medical supplies, clothing, ete. received from the British Empire.
This Committee has now been funein the purchase of medical supplies fand drugs and nearly all of these have now arrived in Hongkong. In order that the handling and distribu-ion of them might be adequately conducted, a Medical Supplies Control Committee was appointed His Excellency, the Governor of Hongkong, with Mr. G. C. Pelham, His Mojesiy's Trade Commissioner, as Chairman, Rellet work in Shanghai To deal with the various phases of relict work in Shanghai, the Executive Committee appointed four sub-Committees. namd Chinese Refugees tioning for over two months and regular reports on its work have been forwarded to London for the infor-motion of the Home Committee and of the British public who subscribed the funds. It may therefore be of Interest to the British Community in. China to be given a short account fof what has Seen done.
The, Lord Mayor's Fund is, of course, chiefly intended to ald in the relief of Chinese refugees, not_only at Shanghai but in all parts of China, who may be suffering from the Sino-Japanese conflict, but it was from the beginning made quite clear in the appeal launched in England that British hospitals and British subjects {in distress would be given any necessary assistance, As the Fund covers the whole of [China, "Branch committees of the [Central Executive Committee have been established at Hankow, Tien {sin Tsing'ao and Canton with His Majesty's Consul General as Chairman in each ease and also a Medical [Supplies Depot at Amoy.
About £18,000 of the money subseribed in England was spent there British and non-Chinese)
As it was seen that the distress caused by the hostilities would be Tong and widespread, the Executive Committee decided to work on a budgetary system over a period of six months from November, 1937 to April 1938 and distribution is being made on a percentage basis to each Jestablished area. The allocations Jmade in this way are necessarily [subject (0: revision as the situation changes in the various Provinces and a reserve for special emergent cles and adjustments: was earmarked for this purpose.
Inasmuch a3 the Shanghai Inter~ national Red Cross Society is doing by far the largest and most import= ant Chinese refugee work in this distric having under its control most of the refugee' camps and having thus been able to ce-ordinate relict uss Lee work, working in conjunction with the Salvation "Army, China Medical Association, American Advisory Committee and other organisations, the Central Executive Committee have assisted as far as possible, the International Red Cross in order that duplication of effort might be avoid~ fed. Help has also been afforded to the sufferers in the Nantao district through the Nantao Area Advisory Commilice of which Father Jacquinot Is the Chairman,
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