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the fact that several gifts have been made to the
medical work of this army, including one of stores to
the value of $29,330
any hospital unit.
the largest single gift made to
Further, we have made not a few
gifts to other military hospitals in Central China,
especially of splints. Practically all the splints used
in military hospitals have been supplied by us or made on
patterns supplied by the Committee.
2. The accusation is made that supplies sent to
us are being grabbed by the missions.
The facts are as follows, and of these Mrs.
Selwyn-Clarke has been informed:
In November 1937 I was personally invited by the
Minister of Health to visit Nanking and discuss with him
measures to assist the civilian hospitals. The Minister
of Health was greatly interested in this proposition, as
already by this time the Government was deeply impressed
by the work these hospitals were doing and was anxious to
give them assistance.
The position was that the military hospitals had
of necessity to withdraw when the fighting approached, and
only civil hospitals could continue to work up to the time
that the invading forces reached the cities in which they
were located, and after. The fact that these were very
largely mission hospitals, and that it was only the mission
hospitals that were able to continue their work in occupied
territory, is surely no discredit to these hospitals.
The Chinese Government was so impressed with the work that
was being done that it put aside no less a sum than $200,000
for the support of these mission hospitals, and asked our
Committee to handle this on a scheme agreed between the
Minister of Health and ourselves. The work of the
Committee/