"Washington, Mar. 23.
President Roosevelt yesterday forwarded to the Red Cross an urgent appeal for cracked wheat to meet the desperate food shortage in China.
Another copy of the appeal was sent to the Church Committee for China Relief at New York. The request was made through Mr. Clarence E. Gauss, United States Consul General at Shanghai, by the American Advisory Committee of the Civilian Relief for China.
"The general nature of the appeal is that humanitarian forces of workers it this country should think of China an ambush as well as other nations requiring relief" the White. House Mr. Stephen Early, explained.—United
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