SIBERIA, To the Editor of the "Norta-Catxa Datty News."
Sim,—We have just received the following letter from the Acting Commissioner, Siberian Commis-Sion, of the American Red Cross, Vladivostok, Siberia and we would deeply appreciate your publishing same in your next issue, "With the sailing of the Steamer Yomei Maru a few days' from now, carrying home the Petrograd children, the Siberian Commission, American Red Cross, will virtually close its activities. There will remain here a small unit to wind up details and to have a share in War prisoner repatriation, under the direction of the new American Comittee for the repatriation of War Prisoners. However, the Red Cross organization as a whole is now virtually liquidated.
"A number of us will sail on the Yomei Maru. For those thus leaving Siberia, for the many who have already gone and for the comparatively small number remaining, I in warm appreciation of the splendid ce-operation and assistance the Siberian Commission has had from your China Chapters and their menibers, individually and collectively.
"Tu the early days of the Commission it was the Far Eastern Chapters which contributed the personnel, the relief supplies and te a large extent the financial backing. Through the two years of the Commission's existence, this backing and support have been always freely given and your cooperation ungrudgingly extended. Tam sorry that it is impossible to write letters to every member of your Chapters, expressing this deep appreciation of their interest in our relief programme in Siberia. However, I know, as docs every Red Cross worker here who has seen this colossal relief organization from Vladivostok to the Ural Mountains. that your real appreciation comes from the thousands, yes, the hundreds of thousands of needy men, women and children, who have been saved from disease. starvation and despair. I have just finished packing up for shipment to Washington some of our files of letters of thanks and clippings from Siberian newspapers concerning the work of the American Red Cross. This tangible evidence of appreciation makes up a formidable bulk, and when one realizes what a small percentage of the Siberian people whom we have helped can read or write, it is all the more impressive and heartening to think of the countless thousands who have felt the kind uplifting hand of the American Red Cross here.
"J hope you will find opportunity of expressing this appreciation as many members of your Chapters as Possible, "Again with heartiest thanks for your cooperation with the Siberian I am, ete., W. A. B. Nicxots, Chairman, China Central Committee, American Red Cross. Shanghai Aug 18.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.