Upon a telegraphic call from the U. S. Consul at Canton, $2,000 was
cabled to the local committee for use in relieving the distress caused
by flood in South China. Later a surplus balance of $34,000 in the hands
of the United States and British Consuls at Shanghai, pertaining to
the North China Famine Fund, which was partly derived from Red Cross
contributions made last year, was forwarded to South China for relief of
the sufferers from the June inundations.