We have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your esteemed
favor under date of the 22d, February.
A generous appeal for our famine sufferers in northeastern
provinces in Japan done by your President Roosevelt, whose
sympathy with Japan and her people we have highly appreciated
has echoed to our shore, when our own people have been throwing
their effort in relieving the distressed, whose conditions are
beyond imagination terrible. From the date when you mailed
the letter up to this day the monies you sent to us in cable
remittances amount to $100,000.00 in gold, which we lost no
time, in compliance with your desire and under the direction
of our Government, in distributing to relieve the immediate
necessities of the most needy sufferers by forwarding a certain
amount of money to each President of our Red Cross Branches
in those provinces, who are Governors and, at the same time,
we have had them conveyed to the sufferers all the kindness,
good-will and sympathy that have ever been extended to us by
the American people.
For the time being, we take pleasure in sending you an account
of the monies thus distributed to this date and will submit you
a more accurate account of the relief work later on.
We shall be greatly obliged to you if you kindly send us a list
of those donors’ names and addresses, who have contributed over
$5.00.
Thanking you for your effort in collecting donations and for
the practical sympathy extended by your President, we are,
Yours obediently,
S. HIRAYAMA,
_The Red Cross Society of Japan_.
The above letter enclosed the following financial statement: