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THE EVENING TELEGRAM TORONTO WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1941
PLANNING RED AND BLUE CARNIVAL

Launch Appeal To Aid China
Dominion Campaign Seeks Supplies for Bombed Civilians
How a Canadian dollar is worth 18 Chinese dollars and will house, clothe and feed a Chinese refugee child for a month, or enable a Chinese soldier fighting for democracy for a month on at least a half-full stomach, or provide the anaesthetics for three surgical operations, was outlined to the executive committee of the Toronto Local Council of Women at a meeting in Sherbourne House yesterday.
The speaker was Hubert J. Pocock, chairman of the executive of the "Friends of China" relief campaign, which is now under way in a Dominion-wide effort to secure funds for Chinese refugee relief and the providing of surgical instruments, medical supplies and mobile hospital units in treating the Chinese wounded, whether in battle or in behind-the-line bombing raids on civilians.
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, Canon H. J. Cody, Monseigneur Wm. McGrath, Bishop W. C. White, Mr. Earl Rowe and Dr. C. Y. Shih, the Chinese consul-general.
The executive consists of Hubert J. Pocock, chairman; Dr. R. Gordon Agnew, secretary; Thomas We, treasurer; Percy R. Gardiner, finance convener. The 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, Prof R. B. Thomson, R. S. Hosking, Rev. Gilbert Agar, Rev. Harry Priest.
In his address to the Toronto Local Council of Women, Mr. Pocock said that "the Chinese have been keeping the back door of the North American continent guarded for three years and that, otherwise, the Japanese would be over here. They have nearly 60 million refugees with no homes or 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 funds in the Dominion-wide "Friends of China" campaign would be turned over to the Red Cross and administered by that body. As an incentive and the means of bringnig the aims of the campaign to the attention of the public, Mr. Pocock said that a two-seater plane has been presented to the committee by an undisclosed donor. His observation that one of the ladies at the meeting might become the owner of the plane created considerable amusement but the speaker pointed out that a friend of his in Vancouver was piloting her own plane and was over 50.
In the chair at the meeting was Mrs. Norman Stephens, president of the Toronto Local Council of Women. Miss Jean Ewen, in charge of the "Friends of China" campaign headquarters at 102 King street west, related some of the sights she had seen as a Red Cross nurse in China.