CO129-571-3 Sino-Japanese War- allegations against Hankow International Red Cross Committee 25-3-1938 - 10-11-1938 — Page 11

The answer to these charges is as follows:

1.

On 9th December, 1937, a conference was held in

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the I.R.C. offices with Dr. P.Z. King, representing

the Ministry of Health, Dr. R.K.S. Lim and two

others representing the National Red Cross Society

of China, and five members of the Executive Committee

of the International Red Cross Committee for

Central China, to discuss how overlapping of work

might be avoided. At this meeting the following

principles were agreed to and later initialed on

behalf of the different parties.

(a) That the Army Medical Service take full

responsibility in dealing with the military

hospitals.

(b) That the International Red Cross Committee take

over responsibility for all other hospitals with

such support from the Weishengshu (National Health

Administration as should prove necessary.

(c) That the Chinese Red Cross shall not maintain or

open additional hospitals, but shall put at the

disposal of the military hospitals its personnel

and supplies for the maintenance of mobile units

operating units for work in military hospitals,

and dressing units for intermediate points.

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It was pointed out at this meeting that it was undesirable

for the International Red Cross to deal at all with the

military hospitals, and this our Committee accepted, though

on occasions of special urgency we have not hesitated to

give what help we could. Specifically, we are charged with

discriminating against the 8th Route Army. It would be

hard to conceive a more deliberate falsehood in view of

the/