HELP FROM CHINA
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT
Received Sept. 6, 12 noon
PEKIN, Sept. 5
Cabinet has agreed to a remission of the embargo on the export of rice in order to facilitate supplies to Japan, and has also voted £200.000 for the relief of distress in Japan. The Apostolic delegate of the Holy See communicated with sixty Catholic bishops in China, urging them to support the local committees in organising aid. He also informed Yoshizawa that he would gladly place at his disposal a large number of CsviJiolic nursing sisters who had seen service in the Great War.
Wellington Koo forwarded a telegram to Count Yamamoto conveying the sympathy of the Chinese people and their fervent wishes for a speedy termination of the unprecedented catastrophe.—Reuter.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 6 September 1923, Page 7
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125HELP FROM CHINA Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 6 September 1923, Page 7
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