As had been expected, donations received towards the Salvation Army's &nnual appeal and "hot rice campaign, were somewhat smaller during the Chinese New Year holidays, although more than $1000 were received.
Meanwhile, no less than 3,500 meals were distributed to Shanghai beggars on Friday evening alone, This constitutes a record as compared to all previous evening distributions. H Among the donations received up to yesterday were the following:
"Rice Van" and "Waifs" Fund B/Forward U.S49, M O Williams, Jr 25 $52,122 C F Woodbury 25 Sung' Sing Cot 1000 H Stange 2 For NCDN 392 Mr Wang 2 L H Sze 300 Hanbury Sch. 10 Anonymous 50 C Y Kiang 5
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