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Telegram (en clair) from Sir A. Clark-Kerr (Shanghai)
D. W/T 16th August 1938.
R. 8.0 p.m.16th August 1938.
No.1235.
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Following for Sir A. Cadogan.
When I was at Changsha Dr. Robert Lim (Director Medical Relief Commission National Red Cross Society of China and member of League of Nations Epidemic Commission) told me that Chinese wounded often took as long as a week to reach Military Hospitals from front line and that in nearly all cases wounds were found to be full of maggots. He asked if British or International Red Cross could be moved to help by supplying some specific against maggot which was light in weight and not painful to patients, hitherto a ten per cent solution of salt had been used; but this is both bulky and painful.
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