At another Extraordinary Meeting called because of the 'Cheng crisis', the Temporary Committee hears a letter from Selwyn-Clarke to French banker Paul de Roux - the idea of a committee in town that will raise money to carry out relief work is eventually to give birth to the Informal Welfare Committee.
Source:
John Stericker, Captive Colony, 1945, Chapter IV, page 17
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