The Quetta Relief Fund - Last Monday's meeting at the
Mansion House should have set the Quetta Earthquake Relief Fund well on its feet, and we hope it will receive the generous support to which the need entitles it. Twenty thousand survivors are destitute, and cannot be re-settled for some time to come ; and India, though a large country, is not a rich one. She is, however, making great efforts of her own. The Viceroy opened a fund shortly after the catastrophe,- which by last Monday reached 1150,000 ; and the Indian National Congress has also opened a fund, and set up an organization for supplying relief workers. These activities of the Congress have not been much noticed in the Press of this country, though in newspapers arriving from India they loom large. It seems an obvious opportunity for fruitful co-operation between the Government and Congress forces.
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