894.48B/293
The Chargé in Japan (Caffery) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 3.]
Sir: As of possible interest to the Department, I have the honor to report that according to estimates made up to October 24, 1923, the cost value, in dollars, of American contributions for Japanese relief is computed at $18,200,000. Of this sum $7,000,000 represents the cost value of stores contributed by the Army; $2,000,000 the value of stores brought by the Navy early in September; $1,100,000, Red Cross contributions in cash; $3,000,000 the value of stores purchased by the Red Cross in the United States up to the 19th of September; $2,500,000 the value of stores purchased on Japan’s order subsequent to September 19th; $3,000,000 the amount in cash from the American Red Cross awaiting the disposition of the Japanese authorities; and $100,000 sent by the Japan-America Society of New York to the Japan-America Society of Tokyo.
[Page 489]This estimate does not include the amounts expended for the relief of American citizens and can not, of course, include the sums sent by American organizations to their branches here or the large number of donations sent from individual to individual. It is roughly estimated that this last item amounts to nearly another half a million dollars.
I have [etc.]