RELIEF SUPPLIES

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 103, 29 October 1923, Page 7

RELIEF SUPPLIES

BLANKETS AND MONEY - ONLY NECESSARY.

(SPECIAL TO PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

(Received 29th October, 11.15 a.m.)

KOBE, 27th October. Kobe is the centre of activity for foreign relief work. During tha earthquake period foreign residents 1 raised £40,000. The fine Oriental Hotel was commandeered for foreign refugees, and seome thousands who flocked here during tho_ disaster have mostly departed for their own countries or elsewhere. The relief work is now drawing to a close, and the funds have run out. Mr. R. G. Forster, British Consul-General, states that no more food supplies are wanted, but blankets would be most useful, otherwise the best form of help would be monetary contributions. Kobe is filled with tourists, and all the hotels are crowded. A fight started between Kobe and Yokohama, for the capture of the silk trade has ended in victory for Yokohama. Kobe is overstocked with Australian frozen meat which is now being sold at cut rates, it appears that immediately after the faster a big stock of meat consigned to Hong Kong was deflected to Yokohama, and Kobe. It arrived in quantities beyond local demands, and the meat was offered to the Japanese Government, which was declined, as they had suffici! ent. This meat has no relation to the relief supplies sent from Australia, which was given to the Japanese Relief Committees by Hong Kong people.