CO129-571-18 League of Nations- medical aid for China and reduced cable rates 8-2-1938 - 30-1-1939 — Page 18

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(F 11590/120/10).

The British Fund for the

Relief of Distress in China,

121, Westbourne Terrace,

London,

W. 2.

sir,

1st November, 1938.

In reply to your communication of October 20th, No.

F 9901/120/10., the letter was discussed at the last meeting

of the Executive Committee, on Tuesday October 25th, and I

was instructed to reply to you as follows:-

(1). The Executive Committee is grateful to Viscount

Halifax for forwarding the copy of the letter from His Majesty's

Ambassador in China, and which he had received from Dr. Robert

S.K. Lim, together with his own observations upon the condition

of the Chinese Army Medical Service, and upon the needs of the

Chinese wounded soldiers.

(2). The Committee would like Lord Halifax to know that

the British Fund for the Relief of Distress in China, formerly

the Lord Mayor's Fund, is not only used for the relief of

distress amongst Chinese civilians, but it has also helped

with the refugees of British and other nationalities, and in

addition it has given grants to assist Red Cross Hospitals

especially dealing with wounded Chinese soldiers. It would,

therefore, be quite within the scope of the work of the fund

to/

R.G. Howe, Esq.,

Foreign Office,

S. W. 1.

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