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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY. 8, 1946.
YENAN'S CAVE HOSPITAL
Communist Doctors Doing A Good Job
Newsmen's Complaint
Chungking. Feb. 7. Forelen
correspondents Chungking are waitlur anxiousivÍAN to see whether any rumenius! ne tion will be taken as a result of a complaint they made to Gene- ralissime Chiang Kai-shek roster. day again the long d lave to the transmission of press dispatches i
h1
Abrund from hunghinh. Correspondents decided peal to the Generalissimo sunally after month of fruitless: efforts to have the situation im- proved by representations to th Ministries
and Information.
to an
ber-
Communications
Bany correspondents have fall-; ed to make their deadlines beenuse: of disruptions in radio communi- cation which have frequently p
In Difficult Conditions
(By John Roderick), ..
YENAN, FER. 6. X-RAY MACHINE, A CLEAN, STERILE, EFFICIENT LOOKING CONTRAPTION, OCCUPIES THE PLACE OF HONOUR IN THE NEW OPERATING BUILDING OF
BETHUNE MEMORIAL 126 PEACE HOSPITAL IN THIS CAPITAL OF COM- MUNIST CHINA - WHERE THE HOSPITAL WARDS ARE CAVES CARVED OUT OF A TOWEK. ING CLIFF.
THE MACHINE ARRIVED LAST YEAR WITH THE FIRST BATCH OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES FROM THE AMERICAN, BRITISH AND CANADIAN RED CROSS, THE CHUNG AID COUNCIL AND THE INTERNA TIONAL RELIEF COMMITTEE.
Much-needed and correspond-; everything else, as well as couk. ingly treated will excessive ing the grain. If the patkut tended from 16 to 20 Hours a day warmth. the X-ray was set up in cannot afford even this small A specially prepared wing of the contribution, he is admitted free- building, the luterior of which Government officials, was painted a glossy black.
-Associated Press.
Blind Boy's Case Hopeless
B, Maryland, Pod G Ginnfiane Cablin, eight-year old balun y Wid
underwent
an operation recently at John S. Hopkins Hospital in an attempt to restore his sight, is doomed to blindness.
hold:
A
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case is
Gianfranco was kicked in the face by German envairston's horse and brought to the Unhe Sintes by American soldier who befriended him. He has not been takt of his permanent blindness.
Associated Press.
Harriman Leaves
Seoul, Feb.
Į
andlers
and studenta are treated without charse
One of the most prevalent dis- euses is tuberculosis. Sautoria have been established Lo cart for the amieted, but the most serious surgical
cases come to
All the needed gadgets are improvised from local producta, When the X-ray was installed, a special table had to be built for the Buoroscope. Now two things are lacking to make the X-ray department complete more the hospital. The staff feels the fuoreoscope screens, and gas lack of the most modern med line for the dinky little motor claws in treating this dread dis
supplies the which
power, case, and asks for contributiona Housed in a building aboudly from abroad.. large for such a small affair, the
engine lonks lonely and terribly thirsty for the few drops of which the parsimonious doctors carefully feel into it.
Better living conditions, morg
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New India Bill
French Demands On Ruhr
Washington, Feb. 7. Henri Bonnot, French Ambarsa- dor to Washington, was reported yesterday to have
the London. Feb. 7.
United States Secretary of Stato, Lord Pethwick Lawrence, Seero- Jamies F. Byrnes, to review tary of State for India, intro French demands for internations- duced a new bill yesterday isation of the Ruhr and Rhine- the House of Lords to amend the land, under French control. Government
Act and of India
first read- the bill was riven
No details were available, Ing.
On the motion of Viscount Addison, Leader of the House. use, the Exchange Telegraph said, it was arrced that meetings
Prior to his departure from the House held during seera
to attend the United sessions of the last Parliament London
to therein Nations meetings, Byrnes declar and resolutions come
that Germany's problems: be now recorded in the journals ed of the House." Associated Press. should be considered and settled na a whole before the Ruhr and Rhineland question is taken up.
No Secret
One high French diplomatic cficial, sold that Bonnet in a half-hour. talks with Byrnes em-| phasised French demanda in view of "deteriorating and uncertain" conditions In Germany. ΟΙ
Los Angeles, Feb. 7. Dr. Vern Knu isen, physics pro. fessor at the University of Call fornia at Los Angeles, declared rea yesterday the United States eat-
not hone to keep the secret of the atomic bomb for itself or one
two other selected powers. He said the United States had already revealed one fundamental discovery made during the wen- pon's develonment-the conversion
of uranium to plutonium,
Knudsen asserted: "Russia can and will learn how to make atom home. Se enn every other great power."--Associated Press,
TAKING JAPAN'S PLACE
Bonnet Right after his visit. told newsmen
Anglo- that the French-American talks, on 'Spały would continue through diploma
Lie channels for the present. rather than in formal meetings. He said that he had no when they would be completed.-
Associated Press.
iden
Korean Patrols
Senul, Feb. G. The new Korean coast guard will soon berin patrolling 700: miles of coastline in the Ameri- can occupation zone. The train- ing of 100 officers and men hns started at the new academy in
Chinkai. The JJ.S. milliney that former pant said
patrol craft and possibly surplus American ships will be used.
The present plans call for patrolling by
against piracy and in Korean smuggling Associated Press.
Korea, Feb. 7. Korea, long dominated Japan, hopes to patio its former of silk. overlords in production Capt. James Johnson, of the U.S. Army agricultural section, pre-
Vatera.
abundant foods and clothing shave helped, but people in the
Chinese northland still live inj the most primitive circum- The operating building was stances, inadequately fed, cloth opened on Oct, 20 last year and ed and heated. The threat of has a
was narrowly averted large operating theatre famine
four tables containing
and a only through a vigerous products a promising future for the of silk worm cars and mulberry industry. The output potentiall- seedlings from Japan.-Associat- smaller
but programme, for emergene es. tion one
with ties are being raised by imported Press. Both are immaculate. Into it drawals from reserves have wor has gone a mixture of old and sened this year's situation. The new. Many of the instruments refugees who migrated here are recent acquisitions. But the from other parts of China ara The tables are locally made, with most susceptible to T.B.
generally hardy, metal fittings wrought from Ja- natives are
railroad rails ย the plenty of sunshine and dry cold, panese
air aiding them in the struggle. GRAVE PROBLEMS
W. Averell Harriman, United States Ambassador to Russia, and George Alcheson Jr... General Yenan arsenal.
MacArthur's adviser, left here, to-day after a two-day
visit to Lieut-General John flodge and other American officials.
Hoscow.
Norri
KANG PRINCIPLE
The building cost U.S.$10,000 When I visited the hospital Toule home from and is ingeniously heated-by-up-there were 146 patients in the
plying the kang principle to the 110 cave wards. The Superin
tendent, Dr. Wei Yi-hsing, said that as many as 180 have been cared for at a time. I saw 30 squealing, red-faced newly borns in the nursery. They were - ing in-orderly wooden comport- ments.
The nature of the talks has walls. That is, instead of one not been divulged but it is pre-wall, there are two with fires sumed that they discussed the pro-warming the space in between, posed allied trusteeship of Korea. giving the room a steady, con- --Assosiated Press.
stant temperature.
Draft Not Needed
International Court Judges Elected
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COUNCH, MEETING SEPARATELY, FILLED 13 OF THE 15 JUDGESHIPS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE ON THEIR FIRST BALLOTS YESTERDAY.
Those elected were: Dr. Mo Hsu, China; Prof. Sergei Boris- vich Krylov, Russia; Badawi Pasha, Egypt: Prof. Jules Basde- vant, France; Sir Arnold Duncan McNair, United Kingdom; Dr.
J
In the adjoining cave, there were rag dolls and blackboards.
de Barros Azevedow. Brazil; This was a class-room for inter- Dr. Charks de Visscher, Bel- nces learning child delivery. gium: Isidro Fabein Alfaro, Mexi Even the dolls had small Com-co; G. H. Hackworth,
United States: John E. Read, Canada: munist stars on their clothes.
Dr. Milovan Zoricie, Yugoslavia;
Alvareze Chile: Dr.) Alejandro Jose Gustavo Guerrera, El Sal-
During 1945 the hospital's surgical staff, working under ad- verge conditions performed 900 operations, ranging from appen dicltis to hernia. Iz the last Washington. Feb. 5. month in the new building, the Captain G. R. Donaho, the average has been 80 a week, with Navy's director of recruiting said operating days Monday and Fri- "We don't need a draft" to man day. Most of the operations As I shock hands with these the U.S. Fleet. He told a news undertaken on soldiers were for ploneer doctors-all of whom conference that the regular ተቦ- appendicitis as a preventive bo- had given up. security and cruited strength of the Navy fore they left for the front. In friends in mid-career to spend totalled 381334 a week ago. The goal of 500,000 would be reached all cases, they had complained of their lives in public services appendix pains. The only other here one of them said to me:- soldiers trented here were thuse The Navy is adhering to its needing repair to joints because We need vaccinos
"We need a lot of things here. and printed. selective service call of 1.000 of ostyeomplitis or removal of monthly but inductions are run- ning below," Donaho said.--Asso- abdominal fistulas caused by materials. But, most of all, we
gunshot wounds.
need people who will bring warmth and understanding to Though the hospital made no the grave problems of China, As charge for its services, food or doctors, our first wish is for equipment in the beginning, the pence. So, too, we must help to doctors had to fight more than eliminate suffering and wara
from the primitive facilities. There was
earth."-Associated the hostility of the people them- Press. selves la modern medicine.
berner September.
ented Press
CAPITALIST NEXT?
Nuernberg. Fob. 7. Posable indictment of a sedre of bur Nazi industrialists and financiers is ander discussion hore, a spokesman for the British
prosecution in the Nuernberg
war crimes trials said.
The United States is not com- luted to further participation In war crimes trials of an inter. astional character at Nuernberg but is known to be interested prosecution of the lenders of
Sicks persons placed more re-
Liance on witch doctors and her STIFF ACTION IN ballets. Gradually, throuchi education and folk plays which INDONESIA portrayed the evils of the old methods, they began appearing at the hospital. Cures and good treatment did the rest.
Batavia, Feb. 6. A company of British troops was forced to withdraw under
vador.
Sir Mohamed Zafrullah Kahan of Indis obtained a majority in the Assembly but not in the Council, so failed of election. able to reach any decision in ita second ballot to select the remain- ing two judges, for no candidate succeeded in obtaining a majority.
The General Assembly was un-
can-
Poland, Bohdan Winiarski, with seven votos, was the only didate who succeeded in getting:
on majority
tho Council's second ballot, but his election still) lacked Assembly confirmation. Other results of the Council'a second bailot were:
Doctor Kinestad. Norway. five votos, Professor J. H. W. Varzijl, Netherlands, three votes, Pro- fessor Bailey, Australia, three. votes and Professor Spiropoulos, Greece and Mustafa Adle, Iraq. both with one vote.
On the third ballate of the Assembly and the Council. Dr.
Germany's war industries. The In the past year alene, the fire of Indonesian nationalist ar- possible defendants have not been number of patients admitted tillery west of Tebel, near Helge Kiacstad, of Norway, was decided. Associated Press.
*Kap
BRIDGE BLOWN
Sourabaya, a British communi- elected to the 14th seat securing
from the Yenan area increased by 20 per cent over the previous year. Last year, the hospital admitted 4.164 patients and dis- charged 4,025," One hundre: and thirty-nine were mortalitles,by
low rate,
INFANT. MORTALITY
During this time, there were 772 dollyerles four of them
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of the General Assembly
with- British patrols and paratroopere out having received the confins- were active around.Semarang.den of the Security Council Associated Press:
Associated Press.
Balavin. Feb. 7. British authorities said Indone sian units had blown 60-foot 0-foot ลด a bridge in British accupied territory near Sourabaya and had placed demolition charges under another bridge in the vici- nity. The communique also an nounced the capture of 14 alleged ceasarian. In this respect, tho
Yonari, Feb. 6. members of a Batavia aurder hospital has done a missionary William Shepherd, who started Chinese Communist, hondusr- 'gang."—Azzociated Press.
job in encouraging mothers to as a reporter on the “Donverters to-day Instructed ́its Chung- come to them for prenatal care. Post more than 40 years ago king thiegation to begin negotia
been its editor and tons over the Communist In cases where they are unwill- and had Pittsburg, Feb. 7.
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Associated Prast.
sult is a remarkable drop in the plan. infant mortality rate.
trala of
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