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THE GLOBE AND MAIL TORONTO, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1941.

[[Fr]]iends of China Campaign [[S]]ponsored by Loyal Citizens Explained to Local Council

Reasons for Appeal Based on Chinese-American Relations

DEMOCRATIC CAUSE

How a Canadian dollar, worth eighteen Chinese dollars, will house, clothe and feed a Chinese refugee child or support a Chinese soldier fighting for democracy for a month, or provide anaesthetics for three surgical operations, was outlined to the executive committee of the Toronto Local Council of Women yesterday. by Hubert J. Pocock, chairman of the executive of the "Friends of China" relief campaign. He explained the Dominion-wide effort to secure funds for Chinese refugee relief anud for surgical instruments, medical supplies and mobile hospital units in treating the Chinese wounded.

Sponsors of the fund include Hon. Albert Matthews, Premier Hepburn, Mayor Conboy, Most Rev. Derwyn T. Owen, Most Rev. J. C. McGuigan, Very Rev. Peter Bryce, Hon. Salter Hayden, President H. J. Cody, Monsignor Wm. McGrath, Bishop W. C. White, Mr. Earl Rowe and Dr. C. Y. Shih, the Chinese consul-general. The executive includes Dr. R Gordon Agnew, secretary; Thomas We, treasurer; Percy R. Gardiner, finance convener. Committee members are Mrs. J. F. Davidson, Mrs. Annie Hymus, Miss Louise Gates, Mrs. R. B. Thomson, Controller R. H. Saunders, E. C. Bogart, Dr. F. J. Day, Dr. W. D. Noyes, Dr. F. W. Schofield, Chong Ying, Professor R. B. Thomson, R. S. Hosking, Rev. Gilbert Agar, Rev. Harry Priest.

Mr. Pocock asserted that "the Chinese have been keeping the backdoor of the North American continent guarded for three years, otherwise the Japanese would be over here. They have nearly sixty million refugees with neither homes, clothing or decent food, and yet there is so much food in Canada that we have to store this in warehouses across the border."

The speaker outlined how the funds would be turned over to the Red Cross and administered by that body. As an incentive and the means of bringing the aims of the campaign to the attention of the public, a twoseater plane has been presented to the committee by an undisclosed donor. Mrs. Norman Stephens, president of the Toronto Local Council of Women, presided, and Miss Jean Ewen, in charge of the "Friends of China" campaign headquarters at 102 King Street West, told of things she had seen when a Red Cross nurse in China.

Transcription Notes:
This article is about the "Friends of China' relief campaign but does not mention Lee Ya-Ching.