There will be fairly: general agreement with the correspondents who write to-lay in protest against foreign doctors going to the Nationalist war front. While Nanking does nothing to restore to their owners the hospitals and mission Premises occupied by its soldiers and civilians; while, in defiance of General Chiang Kui-shek's solemn. and spontaneous undertaking, troops have occupied the mission prem in Yenchow; the Nationalist appeal for foreign' medical helpers argues a strange state of mind indeed. Yet we cannot but think that. the question of response to this appeal must be left to individual medical men to decide; and if they go, who will blame them? After all, the people who need their help are com mon soldiers with whom there can be no reasonable quarrel, If they occupy mission premises, it is because their superiors allow or even encourage them to do so; and though there are, perhaps, brutes among them, the vast majority are just the common Chinese peasant, turned soldier because he has.no other way of getting a living, Left to their own medical staff they will fare badly indeed and suffer horribly; and somehow it seems beneath Western standards of eivili tion to revenge ourselves on them because their superiors do not know how to behave and have been false to their promise:
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