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Show CHINA ISSUES APPEAL FOR AID $100,000 ASKED IN BEHALF OF INTERNATIONAL IN-TERNATIONAL UNIT FOR RELIEF RE-LIEF OF WOU-NDED Northern Troops of Marshal Chany Tso-Lin Intend to Withdraw From Peking Hankow, China An appeal for funds i tor the relief of Chinese in the pres- j ent civil war has been sent to the in- ; ternational Young Men s Christian association as-sociation at New York and the inter-natienal inter-natienal missionary council at Losdon, signed by two Protestant Episcopal bishops and several missionaries. The appeal asks for $100,000 (Mexican) (Mex-ican) in behalf of the international independence unit, which is cooperating cooperat-ing with official Chinese assocatkms for the relief of the wounded. The appeal ap-peal points out that S000 wounded already al-ready are in Hankow with large numbers num-bers arriving daily from the fighting areas. Existing agencies are stated to be overwhelmed with work, that mission mis-sion hospitals are enlarging their accommodations ac-commodations and staffs and that increased in-creased funds are needed urgently. The appeal was Blgned by the Rt. Rev. Herbert L. Roots, American Protestant Episcopal bishop of Hankow; Han-kow; Bishop John Holden of Kwangsi-Hunan, Kwangsi-Hunan, the Reverends Guttery and Battenbury and Dr. Gillison. |