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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
OH, IT TAKES
A FEW MINUTES TO GET GOING
STRONG!
September 4, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
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U.S. Corps Studying War Epidemics
After months of painstaking preparations including the shipment of a 22-building pre-fabricated hospital from the United States a corps of 84 American doctors, medical techni- cians and Red Cross nurses have started a long-range study of wartime disease in Great Britain under the auspices of the American Red Cross and Harvard University.
The study is being conducted from the American Red Cross- Harvard Hospital which has just been completed at an unnamed
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site southwest of London, according to Dr John E. Gordon, . R. LOXLEY & CO., (China) LTD.
Harvard epidemiologist who has been placed in charge of the project..
MESSAGE
TO WOMEN
Although the immediate aim will be to assist Britain in fight- ing communicable disease, the long-range purpose of the under- taking will be to get more in- formation about how epidemics start, what can be done to head them off and how the United States can - preserve its own Gealth if war ever comes to A message sent to Indian wo- American shores.
men was signed by Lady Violet Reports of the study will be turned Bonham-Carter, Dame Elizabeth over to the army, navy and pubile Cadbury, Miss Thelma Cazalet, health service of the United States.
OF INDIA
Much is yet to be leamed of the M.P., Mrs Corbett Ashby, Mrs prevention and treatment of epi-H. Gray, Lady Hartog, Mrs demies under wartime conditions, Dr Dorothy Jinarajadasa, Mrs G. Gordon pointed out. Do they begin Lankester, Lady Layton, Miss -in-army camps and spread thence to civilian centres, or vice versa? How Picton-Turbervill, Lady Procter, much can be blamed on skimpy war und Miss D. Solomon. "It stated: rations? In what way can epidemics be nipped in the bud when air raids and other wartime dlaorganisation make ordinary pencetime procedure Impossible.
We who count many Indiur women among our friends feel compelled by the urgency of the times to send you this message. These are some of the questions In the front line ourselves, we to which Dr Gordon hopes to find an watch the battle zones extending answer. When the project gets into farther eastward from day to full swing, doctors and technicians, added by the overneas corps of led day. We have entered the most Cross nurses, will fan out
in pritical phase of the war and wo motorised unita, covering an Grea
do not think that India realises within a 150-mile radius from the
Her danger. We believe that hospital base. The territory in which the hospital is located comprises some your peril is no less great than industrial centres, a good bit of runt ours. country and a number of troop con- centration centres.
When Nazis
Feel Like
Vanquished
We know how passionately you hate war. We hate war, too. Much of the national and International work of our women's, organisations In the last twenty years has been work for peace,
Goodwill to India
We are told that some of you say tint this is a war of British im- perialism and that therefore Indian nationalists can have no part in it. We do not think that many of you. can really believe this in your hearts. Without victory for the democracies there can be no Indian freedom, and we assure you in all sincerity that never was there so much good- will to Indio, so much sympathy with Indian aspirations, as is to be found din to be a free and equal partner in Britain to-day. Brilain wants in the Cominonwealth.
PROFESSOR Gerbrandy, Dutch Premier, speaking at Shefeld recently, said: "The Nazi invader removes from offi- cial places in the Netherlands all portraits of the Queen; they are multiplied in the homes.
The supreme need of the moment The invader forbids the ex-s union for victory. May it not be hibition of her portraits in shop with you, us with us, that differences between political parties can be fald windows; a book shopkeeper re-aside for a time to face a common taliated by placing in his win- danger? And when victory comes low a portrait of Hitler sur-pane will be found who wisir to dis- rounded with copies of a book pute India's claim to her place among entitled 'How to Learn to Swim. the free nations freely co-operating
to plan a wiser world." "Orders are given that no like- nesses of the Queen may be sold. The Netherlanilers carve out her image from coins and wear it as an ornament in such overwhelming numbers that there is a shortage of small change.
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NAZIS LIFT BAN
ON CBS
News broadcasts from Berlin by "A German officer wrote that the the Columbia Broadcasting System reception In Poland was not cordial, were resumed recently, after having In Denmark disagreeable, in Norway been halted by the Nazis for nearly annoying, and in the Netherlands three weeks. The Nazi Propagandn terrifying,
Miniatry objected to remarks "These people,' he said, 'treat us Elmer Davis, "In N. Y., concerning as civilians of a lower class. The an interview of CBS's Hatry Flan-: conqueror feels as though he is the nery in Berlin with P. G. Wode-
tors.
of
ACHTUNG, HAWKINSI ACHTUNG!
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"Yes, Hawkins. Indeed! Indeed Indeed!
I suppose you "think I ought to have a tearing headache
vanquished walking between the vic-house, the British humorist who is THE
ID Nazi prisoner.
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