HONG KONG DAILY PRESS
GLOWING TRIBUTE SOLDIER BY SPEAKER AT ROTARY CLUB TIFFIN
Dr. H. Talbot Tells Of Work At Nanchang: Poison Gas Cases
He puts up
"The Chinese soldier is really a number'one man. with a lot of difficulties which. I am sure, the soldiers of other coun- tries cannot. He walks miles and miles to the front under a bolling hot sun. Sometimes he goes on for miles without water and when
be can bear no more,' drinks the water from paddy-fields, which is very dangerous, and as a result 50 to 60 per cent of the soldiers' admitted to the various hospitals are laid up with sickness other than wounds.
This was the tribute paid to the gallant Chinese soldier at the front by Dr. H. Talbot, who recently spent two months with the Chinese Red Cross at the front, in the course of an address at the weekly Rotary club tin held in the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel yesterday.
Hon. Dr. Li Shu-fan presided and Introduced the speaker, who said that memories of what he has just seen and experienced were still fresh in his mind. He said that
he left Hong Kong and arrived in Hankow by Eurasia plane...
He went under the auspices of the International Red Cross. When arrived in Hankow he saw that something had to be done to
he
"It is only by publishing and exposing things of this nature that we can hope for any change to take place," he said,
PAID
GENERAL
TO CHINESE
REQUEST FOR MOVEMENT
OF AIRCRAFT Japanese Consul's Request
In connection with the at- tack on the Junkers plane be longing to the Eurasia Aviation Corporation on Monday morn- ing. It was revealed Jesterday that the Japanese Consulate- General in Hong Kong hail on Saturday written to the Ger- man Consulate asking, them to forward a request; from the Japanese authorities that Japan be notified of the time tables and routes of the Cara- pany's planes, but no reply to this was received till yesterday morning."
Chinese Press Urges Planes To Carry On
REACTION ΤΟ ATTACK ON EURASIA
The Japanese attack on the special Eurasia plane No. 15 on the Kwangtung-Kwangsi bor- der on Monday, which hap- pened within a fortnight of the C.N.A.C outrage. is, belleved by, lending Hong Kong Chinese papers to have been, a "de- liberate move to disrupt com- munications between the Bri- ish Colony and Interior, states Central News.
To attain this goal' the Sing Tac "Jih Pao said "yesterday the Jap: anese have totally disregarded the best established rule in inter national law by the direct attack on non-combatants.
Interviewed by a representative of the Hong Kong Dally Press, the Acting Consul-General for Ger- many, Herr A. Gelewsky, stated China must deal a severa blow to that the Japáncse request was re Japan's sinister Intention, by celved at 12.20 p.m. on Saturday maintaining the original air ser- From the point of view of lay and was forwarded to the Eurasia|vices at all costs, the paper de men, said the speaker, these cases were very sad: Nothing could be done for them, except to make the patients feel more comfortable until they died.
Some of the cases were suffering relieve the sufferings of the wound- from the effects of mustard gas apoisoning and some of them even
had their eyes burnt out.
ed Chinese soldiers and took plane from Hankow to Nanchang.
Nanchang, said the speaker, was; one of the larger Chinese, town◄i where the base hospitals are situated. Arriving in Nanchang. just at the tall and of a Japanese air raid, he proceeded to the Nanchang General Hospital and started work there. In this bos pital a certain number of beds were devoted to soldiers. The same is to be found throughout China where Mission hospitals are con- cerned.
TASTE OF BOMBING
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Dr. Talbot bald that he returned
Corporation.
clares. Not only Eurasia, planes
YIELDING TO THREATS. Sharing the same view, the Shun
REPLY THROUGH THE POST should continue their flights, but "The Japanese Consulate remain-the, Chnna National
Aviation ed open till 5 p.m., but the German should also resume its services at Consulate closed at its usual time an early date.
and, with the week-end and the of 1 p.m." Herr Gelewsky said, holiday intervening, no reply was Pao declares that by completely received till this morning." suspending their services, the G. N. The reply, according to HerrA C. and Eurasia are yielding to Gelewsky, reached him through Japan's threats and falling victims the post. It was at once forward.
to Hankow by car and train, Heed to the Japanese Consul-Generato ulterior designs to disrupt China's
Mr. T. Nakamura,
Herr Gelewsky added that he had sent a report of the affair to Berlin, and had no further com- ment to make til he had received
stayed in Hankow for two days and then retumed to Changsha and there he got in touch with the Medical Relief Commission of the Chinese Red Cross, which is under the charge of Dr. Robert Lim. He instructions from his Government stayed with Dr. Lim and worked with the Medical Relief Associa- tion.
air communication.
The Shun Pao is sceptical whether Germany, due to German interest in the Eurasia Aviation Aviation Corporation, will lodge a protest with Japan similar to that Aled by the United States in con- nection with the C. N. A. C. out- rage.
LADIES TAKE A.R.P. TESTS
It was here that Dr. Talbot got ing. a distance of about twelve Unfortunately, there were an in-a real taste of aerial bombing, miles. The wounded soldiers under- suficient number of beds about when the Japanese dropped their 80 great hardships, the stretcher 3,000 At present, part of the beda bombs indiscriminately. At the bearers often. whenever they sie are in Japanese occupied areas. time he and his colleagues were tired, resting and dumping the
A further 23 Hong Kong, Indies While Dr. Talbot was work working in one of the military wounded on the roadside.
took their air raid precautions ing in that." hospital, he hospitals at the disposal of Dr.
The speaker said that Mahwell-examination at the Helena May had to make personal inves- Lim. All of a sudden a series of £ng, in its time, must haye been a
Institute yesterday. tigations and inspection tours. crashes shook the building in which nice town. Now, it is completely Soldiers in the military hospital in they were working." One bomb demolished, not a single house is that area were not having the
dropped less than hundred lelt standing. The only thing left treatment they should have had.
GAS CASES
The speaker said that he trans- ferred some of the soldiers to the Nanchang General Hospital where Ize performed operationa wounded Chinese soldiers.
The
yards away and killed a number was a sign-bost, and since there of civilians. In one spot more than were no people living there, the town thirty people had been killed. was cleaner. . As a result of his!
to Mahwelling and, before he left,
Changsha sald the speaker, was trip there he took a Red Cross, unit a town with many narrow streets and tombs, dropped from the he knew that the unit was actually planes flying at a great height, doing some splendid work, He left Mahweiling and visited several
were not aimed at any particular
doctor in charge of the military spot of military importance re- hospital told him one night that sulting in the death of many inno 'a number of gas cases had come]
cent civilians. One" bomb nearly In Dr. Talbot went to see the
hit the Union Hospital of Chang- patients and found that many of
604. the men were suffering from gas poisoning...
Nineteen cases which had come in from a particular aren in Matang were suffering from "the effects of gas poisoning. Of these he saw, that night six were almost certain to lie. One of the nineteen died four days after admission to the hospital
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The hospitals were so crowd- ed after the raid that the dead were placed in a gutter beside the road. As a result of the rald, an Air Raid Station was instituted by the Red Cross. Beds and operating tables were put in the station where victima of air raids were brought and taken
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In to the ward where they were
points on the front-
The candidates have attended Kctures on A R. P. and first aid during the past three months.
The results of the Examinations will be announced later.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
The following announcements are made: j
Mr. Li Wal-lap. teacher, residing
No. 97 Tung Choi Street, second front line suffer from a lack of white, which rendered the schewan of No: 117 Lai Chi Kok Road. The Red Cross units along the sudden liness of Captain L. J. M. floor; Mongkot, and Miss Lok 01-
duled departure of the plane yes-third floor. Shamshuipo... terday morning impossible.
personnel.
"China is not prepared as far as medical, services are con- cerned for a war of this kind. As a result things have not im- proved. There is a very limit- ed number of doctors and personnel capable of dealing with surgical cases," said Dr. Talbot.
The mail will leave this morning by the Delphinus, which arrived yesterday from Bangkok.
deserve better medical attention." said Dr. Talbot.
SPEAKER THANKED
Dr Li Shu-fan called upon Hon.
Mr. Ching Tat-man, cashier, of No 39 Hennessy Road, and Miss Tong "Sat-kee, of No 81 Hennessyj Road, top floor.
DEATH OF MANILA RESIDENT
MI. M. K. Lo to thank the speaker. News of the death of Mr. Hubert
Mr. Lo paid tribute
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the Anderson of the Manila Hotel was
CHOLERA TREATMENT Changsha, said the speaker, had Dr. Talbot, obtained permission kept for not more than forty-eight a hospital where patients suffering speaker, remarking that Dr. Talbot received in the Colony by cable
The had devoted his two months' holl-yesterday. from the General in Command to hours to be transferred to the from cholera are treated
At the General Hospital to make room death-rate is about 10 per cent day in giving valuable medical Mr. Anderson underwent an perform a post mortem, time, there were few doctors in for the next batch. Nanchang who were capable of giving the best possible treatment to the soldiers, with the result that many of the wounded were left for some time without proper care and treatment.
The speaker went on to say that he left Nanchang when the fighting in that area decreased and fewer cases came in for treatment He decided to leave for Hankow and present his report on the gas cases which was finally approved and sent on to Geneva. The report had been published some time ago. said the speaker.
FRONT LINES.
The speaker said that he had plenty to do in Changsha. He was next asked to see, what could
Very popular with
of the cases admitted, which is service to the wounded at the operation for appendicitis on considered very good..
front.
|Friday, but complications set in Changsha, as a town. is "dead". Dr. Li propose that the day's and he died on Monday morning. Fearing the air raids," the Inhabl-collection be devoted to the cause
all circles, tants have all left for the country for which Dr. Talbot had pleaded. Mi. Anderson spent several years or some other nearby town.
tu Hong Kong for the United States Treasury Department.
VISITORS
be done nearer the 'front lines. He Concluding his address, the The following were visiting Ro- proceeded to Nanchang and from speaker appealed to those who tarlans:- there went to a town called Mah-had any control of funds, to TE- L. Fabel of Changsha, K. Inul of i hwelling where stretcher uniti mit some to the training school Shanghat. J. M. Hansen of Nan- 19 stationed The doctors in charge under the change of Dr. Lim, men-king, and W. Vinson Lee of Bhang have not undergone. Westerntioning that the men and nurses nal. training.
He
is survived by a wife in Manila,
LINES DAMAGED
The
Kowloon-Canton Railway
are paid very meagre salaries, the Visiting guests introduced by Ro-service was suspended, yesterday | The seriously wounded soldiers, highest Dald doctor getting from tarians were:-
month. said the speaker, were carried on $150 to $200 a
for an indefinite time, as the re- Mesars H. H. Beddow, Stock: suit of damage done to the lings at stretchers to a place called Oushih- "The soldiers, who are absolute-0. A. Pentreath. Phillip. A. Nisslin certain points of the route by fa- man and from thence to Mahwel-ly true blue, fight to the last, 'and and J. T. Bagram,
panese planes on Monday evening.
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CHINESE RETAKE TUNGYI
Hankow, September 8. Tungy, southwest of Tainan in Shantung, has been re-occupied by Chinese guérillas, a Tientsin report reveals, pl
Oninere mobile bands are also active in areas in easterri Hopel. At Sanho, ábout 15 kilometres east of Tungchow, they are reported to be fighting with the Japanese,
-Heavy Japaness rainforcements have been rushed there and bombers have been bombing othe› Chinese positions in the past few days (Central News),
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