CHAS. L. MAGEE, ESQ., Secretary National Red Cross Society, Washington, D. C. Sir—Referring to your letter of August 18 and my reply of September 18, 1908, regarding the $2,000 sent by your Society through the Department of State for the relief of flood sufferers, I have to enclose herewith a copy of a report just received by me from Dr. Charles K. Edmunds, Secretary of the Canton Flood Relief Committee. I also enclose eight photographs taken in districts affected by the flood. I am, sir, your obedient servant, WILLARD B. HULL, Vice-Consul in Charge. [Note.—$2,000 in gold in exchange gave $4,519.77 Mexican dollars for relief work.] [Illustration: BUILDING DESTROYED AT TSING YUEN.] [Illustration: DYKES DESTROYED ON THE NORTH RIVER.] [Illustration: HOUSES DESTROYED BY THE HIGH WATER.] [Illustration: DESTROYED DYKE AND HOUSES NEAR TSING YUEN, NORTH RIVER DISTRICT.] REPORT TO W. B. HULL, ESQ., AMERICAN VICE-CONSUL-GENERAL IN CHARGE, AT CANTON, IN REGARD TO AID GIVEN TO FLOOD SUFFERERS, SUMMER 1908, By EXPENDITURE OF $2,000 GOLD, RECEIVED FROM THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS. Amount Received $4,519.77 Mex. Disbursed in three lots: A. To Rev. Mr. Roach, of the Baptist Mission on North River, Yingtak $1,000.00 Mex. B. To Chinese Committee (per Kwong On & Co.), for West River Relief 1,000.00 Mex. C. To Rev. W. W. Clayson, London Mission, acting in co-operation with Chinese Commission on North River, Tsing Yuen and Sham Shui Districts 2,519.77 Mex. The most needy districts were Yingtak and Tsing Yuen. The money was spent in the following manner in the three cases: A. Employment given to a daily average of 80-85 men and women and 30 cents and 25 cents (Mex.) per day, respectively, during some forty days, tiding them over the worst period of want until local officials came to aid more effectively. Work was the repairing of a main public highway. The Baptist Mission supplied the necessary road material, lime, etc. There remains a balance of $200 Mexican on hand. B. While in Yingtak it was thought wisest to give employment to the needy as above described; along the West River it was deemed best to give money direct. In this region rice and other foodstuffs were being sold at a reduction of 30 or 40 per cent. through the agency of local gentry of wealth, officials and the native benevolent institutions. One thousand dollars was then distributed through the Native General Committee from the United Churches of Canton, and some thousands of people supplied with cash to buy food at these reduced rates.