KWANGTUNG RED CROSS SOCIETIES-
It is interesting to remember that the Kwangtung Red Cross Soclettes are the oldest foundations of their kind in China. And while the Headquarters of the Chinese National Red Cross is still par- adoxically enough iccated in Shanghai under the shadow of Japanese bayonets, and a branch office exists in Hankow," the roots from which the great tree grew is still firmly planted in the tradi- tion of the Red Cross Societies of Kwangtung.
been made by the former body under the able leadership of Miss Carter, and they have been des- patched to Canton,
The Canton Red Cross, under the Chairmanship of Mayor Tseng Yang Fu and ably assisted by Dr. Tso Wal-ming is well organised and equipped to deal with the civilian casualties which result from the Indiscriminate bombing of the Japanese air-raiders. It is estimated that the hospital facili- ties. of Canton are ample to take care of a possible 5 to 10,000 casualties over a period of a week as a result of intensive Japanese aerial bombardment.
The chief of the Kwangtung Red Cross Societies is the 4th Route Army Medical Service. And while In Shanghal the Red Cross was a little more than a name which
At the request of a number of did not maintain any organisation foreign well wishers and the large for mobilidation upon the approach missionary workers in Canton and of a crisis, the Army Medical scattered throughout Kwangtung. Training College, the Army Medicala Sub-Committee of the Chinese Academy and the 4th Route Army National Red Cross has been for- Medical Corps provided cadres formed in Canton as in Shanghai, emergency medical work which Hankow, Tientsin and other loca of have proved to be unsurpassed in iities in China. China during the present crisis.
It is no little tribute to the Director of the 4th Route Army Medical Service, General Cheung
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1938.
ATTENDING SINGAPORE DOCK OPENING
HMS. Eagle, aircraft carrier of the China Station, will be present at the opening of the Singapore dock on February 14. The following vessels of the China Squadron will also be present: the cruiser Dorsetshire, the submarine depot ship Medway and ten submarines. Also attendant will be the des-
troyer Westcott and four other destroyers.
PIRACY
brought about by the deliberations MEDITERRANEAN
the Joint Committee of the Saclettes under the, chairmanship It has been sometimes thought of General Cheung Kin., While two that the International Committees representatives of the Chinese of the Chinese Red Cross are National Red Crose ensure that an
Cross even if
London. Feb. 3. Measures to be taken by Great
Wednesday,
RUSSIANS ARRESTED FOR LOOTING
During the past few days, 21 Rus- stans were arrested by the Shang-
BASQUE CHILDREN SPAIN UNSAFE FOR
Kin, a military surgeon still in hie i branches of the International Red adequate share of the supplies Britain for combating piracy in the hat Municipal Council police in the thirties, that he was responsibie Cross of Geneva and in conse- donated by overseas Chinese and Western Mediterranean was the Hongkew district on charges of
the establishment of Army/quence sometimes confusion has foreign wellwishers are maintain-thier mutter discussed at the Ca- looting. Two Medical Training in Kwangtung. resulted in the way donations have ed ready in Kwangtung against binct's regular weekly session on custody
were taken into and for its direction over a period committees in China. But being C.Y. Wu the director of the Hong been addressed to. International the outbreak of hostilities. Dr.
on January 31, Ave on February 1. and the remaining of eight years. General Cheung was
Decisions reached by the Cabinet fifteen on February 2 sent by the higher military author sub-Committees of the Chinese Kong. Bureau
of the Chinese
were communicated by Mr. Eden. Ities to study this branch of medi-National Red Cross donations of National Red Cross and represen-
The accused were brought up fúnds or supplies should properly tative of the Ministry of Health, bassadors of France and Italy at a Court on February 3.--(Reuter).
the Foreign Secretary, to the Am-for trial in the Shanghai District cine and its organisation with re- be addressed to the Chinese Na- while Dr. Wan Yik, is the represen-conference at the Foreign Office at ference to military affairs,
ear-tative in Canton of the technical four o'clock. An official statement upon his return completed plantional Red for and supervised the erection of marked for the assistance of the staff of the Hankow Bureau of the explaining the nature of the deci the splendid Kwangtung Military missionary established and main-Chinese National Red Cross, named sions has not yet been issued, but Hospital, the Medical Academy. tained medical institutions
in for duty under the directions of unofficial quarters state that the and the Training School.
General Cheung.
British Government is taking a General Cheung has pointed out grave view of the situation in the WELL SUPPLIED
that "our troops have fought Mediterranean and is determined In Canton the Canton Interna-bravely on the battlefields. And to prevent further attacks on mer-Committee has decided. in lew tonal Committee of the Red Cross the high morale of our soldiers chantmen. It is indicated that the of the constant danger from serial Society of China is under the able has depended chairmanship of Dr. Wong Man, the medical attention being given to protest
upon adequate British Government may address a bombing, that it would be unsafe to General Franco to send the Basque children, who Dean of the Sun Yat Sen medical them
when they are wounded." (Trans-Ocean)
have been cared for in Britain, College and Superintendent of the This we have tried to do. Many
back to Eastern Spain.-(Reuter's Canton Hospital The Vice Chair- man are Messrs. LK. Little and H
Bulletin Service).
During the present war it is a household truth that the Cantonese Armies were well supplied with medical personnel. There 1s R doctor attached to each battalion of troops, while every company possesses Its experienced first aid dreaser, his strecher bearers and
China.
CANTON OFFICALS
of our wounded who arrived back from the fronts to Kwangtung
SPANISH NAVAL PATROL
Replying to a question as to what
The
London, Feb. 3. British Basque Children
of an
first aid equipment. Lately efforts Staples Smith. The Treasurer is have already recovered and have steps the British Government indestroyers had left Gibraltar for have been made, in conjunction Mr. D. Dawson. The Secretary returned to the army. Those of our tended to take in view of the latest the Spanish east coast. Mr. Eden with Hong Kong International is Dr. K. Hsu, and the Members wounded who are crippled are be- Incidents in Medical Relief Committee and the of the Committee are Drs. Cading cared for. And now the time Mr. Eden confirmed that the Bri-
the Mediterranean.further stressed that the British Bong Kong Chinese
Women's bury, Lancaster. Messrs. Schubert is coming for an appeal for arti-ish naval forces engaged in the part in any international action Government was ready to take Wounded Soldiers Relief Associa- and W.J. Wen.
ficial limbs for the disabled so that Mediterranean
naval patrol had aiming at the conclusion tion, to supply every Cantonese
In accordance with the state of they may not be a burden to already been strengthened. soldler going to the front, with ah war that exists in China the co-themselves when they return to
agreement by which the terrors to Individual first aid package. The ordination of the work of the their villages."(China Informa-ing to a report which had reached top was exposed through air raids Mr. Eden declared that, accord- which the Spanish civilian popula first 20.000 of these packages have Kwangtung Red Cross Bocieties is tion Service).
London on Tuesday evening four might be reduced-(Trans-Ocean?
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