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Show Red Cross Sends $30,000 To Aid American Refugees Fleeing From Shanghai The American National Red Cross has already sent $30,000 for the emergency relief of refugees who are arriving in Manila as they flee from Shanghai and other cities ci-ties in China, A. L. Schafer, Red Cress manager in the Pacific Area, is advised by Chairman Cary T. Grayson at Washington, D. C. Charles Forster, formerly of Oakland, California, now manager of the Philippines Red Cross, accompanied ac-companied the first boatload of refugees from China to Manila. Pcrster had gone to Shanghai on July 19 for a preliminary survey. Refugees reaching Manila are being housed, fed and clothed under un-der direction of the Red Cross Emergency Committee, headed by Miss Marguerite Wolfson, of Manila. Man-ila. The committee is functioning with one hundred per cent cooperation cooper-ation from Paul V. McNutt, U. S. High' Commissioner to the Philippines. Philip-pines. Forster in a radio broadcast over KZRM and facilitie of the Radio Corporation of America and the National Broadcasting Company reported re-ported that 404 women and children child-ren comprised the first boatload cf refugees to reach Manila aboard the Dollar liner President Jelfer-s:n. Jelfer-s:n. The liners McKinley and Hoover are following with more American refugees. In addition to the horrors they experienced in fleeing from war-torn war-torn Shanghai, the reiVgees arrived in Manila just as the Philippines were shaken by the worst earthquake earth-quake in many years. I'c.ste. radi ed that many islanders island-ers had been injured but the ex-ent ex-ent of the damage was unknown at the time. Refuses from Shanghai and other oth-er points in China are being vac-jinated vac-jinated against cholera, typhoid 'eve. and svr.alipcx. |