CO129-571-18 League of Nations- medical aid for China and reduced cable rates 8-2-1938 - 30-1-1939 — Page 32

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NATIONAL RED CROSS SOCIETY OF CHINA.

Medical Relief Commission.

Changsha, August 3, 1938.

Dear Sir Archibald,

I beg to present a brief confidential report of the medianl

services of the Chinese Aray, and of the auxiliary medical

service rendered by the National Red Cross Society of China.

You have very kindly offered to lay our case before British

organizations who are anxious to help the Chinese people, and I

therefore take this opportunity to place before you some of the

more urgent needs of this country in this respect. The needs

are everywhere so great that it is difficult to know how to

render help efficiently. Insufficiency of funds, and thus the

lack of medical equipment and supplies can be largely remedied

through the aid of foreign sympathizers. But the care and

treatment of the wounded is a task which foreign friends can do

little to help directly, because of language difficulties, lack

of adequate organization in which foreign helpers can work

and the enormous numbers of such helpers which would be required.

Besides, this task is one which the Chinese people are anxious

to perform themselves

a duty to their comrades in arze

and to their country. They need help in order to learn how to

carry out this task efficiently.

Improvement of medical

organisation and training of personnel for medical service are

being undertaken by the new Medical Service Training School.

Financial aid and the assistance of foreign instructors, especially

an organized group as represented by a Field Hospital or Ambulance

Unit, are therefore solicited in order that the effectiveness of

the school can be augmented to the utmost.

H.E. Sir Archibald Clark-Kerr,

Government House,

Hongkong.

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