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Committee for the hospitals is still meeting with the
hearty approval of the National Health Administration and
we are hoping to secure further funds from it for their
support.
3.
It is stated that supplies entrusted to mission
hospitals are inadvertently or as a matter of policy passed
to the Japanese.
A quotation is given from Mrs. Selwyn-
Clarke's letter as follows:
"It is becoming a scandal that the I.R.C. supplies
mainly the mission hospitals who insist on leaving all
their equipment behind for the Japanese when a town is
taken. Masses of material has been lost in this way.
Can you not stop the Committee doing this and send to
us instead?".
This is a very serious charge and should not have
been made without ascertaining the facts of the case. It
is apparently made, from the sentence quoted above, with
the special object of getting gifts away from our Committee,
and this rather despicable trick seems to have been
successful.
The fact is that not one single hospital
subsidized by the Committee and now in occupied territory
is failing to continue its beneficent work. And the
Committee continues to transmit by various channels and funds
they require for carrying on. No hospital has closed and,
therefore, no equipment has been left behind for the
Japanese. The hospitals are, however, carrying out the
ideals of the Red Cross in treating all who are wounded or
suffering within their reach without distinction of race,
and will and do on occasion accept Japanese wounded for
treatment in their hospitals, as is their bounded duty
to do.
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