To the Editor of the "NorrH-Cama Daly News!
Sin—As I have been a member of the Wuhan International Red Cross Committee. since its inception, an associate of the medical ndvisets of the Waban Soldiers' Relief Associ tion (the government organization), and a medical officer on th2 staff of the hospitals "actually doing the work, I should be glad of an oppor tunity to present a few facts which will serve to correct and supplement. erroneous and misleading statements your Reuter's telegrams of the Gth" and Tib instant, end your articles of the 8th. My information only reaches to the evening of the 3rd instant, when I left Hankow.
On May 29 an actual cheek on the number of, wounded in Hankoww was made by a delegate from the International Committee. He was taken round by a government re+ presentative to all the places in Hankow where the wounded were lying packed, and found the total to be 5,000. "There were probably at that time another 2000 in Was chang. Since then they have been pouring into Wuhan in. hundreds daily, and, as your article points fut, there are reasons for estinnate ing' that there are ® good many thousands more still up the railway, Tine, The responsibility for dealing with this emergency rests on the Government Relief Association tioned above, which includes Mine, Sun, a number of the most influential men in the government, and two foreign doctors in private practice in Hankow, Dr. Wendt, German, and Dr,' MacWillie" a Canadian, It is quite obvious that the very flimsy regular army rmedient organization of the Nations alist forces at the front hae proved hopelessly inadequate to deal with the huge casualty lists of the tne expectedly severe end prolonged: fighting of the last few weeks; and {his Committee, hastily organized, making a desperate attempt, to cope with the situation, "Ap T left Hankow they were sending out ders for drugs and supplies for 2,000 bed emergency hospital as a beginning, They were hoping to open it the next day, but had not yet secured the buildings or the Hmurees. Tt is easy and quite correct to say that all this provision should have been perfected to the last tail before the first attack was Jaunched. Tt ix also worth while pointing out that so often in times, such provision has "of been ande' at all, ently of lates and the wounded have been leit to rob Chinese warfare, even in recent where they lay. It should be eleare understood that for the work of this Government Wounded Sellers? Relief Asteciation no charitable appeal has been made to foreign communities, though a Red dive is being eaeried on among the Chinese Community of Wuhan, Since the wounded soldiers fivat began to flow into Wuhan a f weeks ago, the missionary hospit have been receiving ard treaty them, as they di soldiers in the fighting 18 months ago, and as they always do whee ther the wounded be a saint or a sinner, a bandit or a burnt baby. When the extent of the emergency, became evident and the congestion threatened to overwhelm these hospitals, it was decided to them under a definite Into Red Cross Committee, Reuter says that this composed only of four Briti and American Miesione.""
Yee! because these ave the only four missionary societies with any hospitals medical staff in Hankow, except the 'd hospital is represented on the Com-Catholic jon (Italian) whose mittee by Dr, Skinner, ar the Evangelical Lutheran Sync: which T understand is getting 9 two nurses from Shanghai The French and Russians a Hans kow have no medical work by the head of their leading ress firm, Chinese several from Intevaational Committee Inid their programme, including the Red Cross before a specially conve of the Internatio Commerce. They did not ask then fur eny monetary contribution, as this revolution has already involved
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