CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937 — Page 30

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A similar letter appeared in the "Daily Telegraph" of the 6th.

On the 14th October, after seeing the Secretary of State for Foreign

Affairs, the Lord Mayor decided to extend his appeal to the whole

country. This was announced in a broadcast by the Lord Mayor

(which I drafted) on October 20 th and on the following day a

Press luncheon was held at the Mansion House at which I arranged

for speeches to be made by Dr. Harold Belne, Dame Rachel Crowdy and

Mr. William Teeling. Reports of the luncheon appeared in the Press

on the following morning.

The conversion of the appeal originally made by the China Association, the British Red Cross Society and the Conference of

British Missionary Societies into a Lord Mayor's Fund is now being

followed by the institution of a central office which while working

under the direction of the Executive Committee will be presided over

by someone unconnected with any one of the three bodies. The this

is to be has not yet been determined.

A copy of this letter is being sent to you via Ɛues and a copy

is also being sent by airmail to Key, the secretary of the China

Association at Hongkong. Copies are also being given to the Foreign

Office and the Colonial Offics.

Yours sincerely,

R. Calder-Marshall, sq..

British Chamber of Commerce and China Association,

27, The Bund,

Shanghai.

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