CO129-571-3 Sino-Japanese War- allegations against Hankow International Red Cross Committee 25-3-1938 - 10-11-1938 — Page 12

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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/