"The German and Italian solidarity a living and actual solidarity. It is not the result of political conferences or diplomatic sophistry but the expression and outcome of a natural feeling of unity and common interests. It is not and does mot intend to be a closed bloc which secludes itself distrustfully and timorously from the rest of the world. Italy and Germany. are willing to ce-operate with all other nations inspired by the same will What they demand is respect and understanding of their requirements, their necessities and their justified claims. As a single condition for their friendship they demand that no attempt be made to disturb the foundation of our illustrious European culture. The conferences I have had with Your Excellency during the past-have consolidated our friendship and-made it invulnerable against every attempt. at. disturbance c: disruption. When I return to Italy I shal! bear with me memories of your manly troops, your national demonstrations, the spiritual and technical work of development which the German nation has accomplished under its Fuehrer, your energy and the reception you have prepared for me and for which I am. deeply. grateful. Above all else I shall bear with me the unreserved. conviction of our firm friendship. I drink to the health of the Fuehrer and Chancellor Adolf Hitler and to the success and greatness of National Socialist Germany."—Trans-Ocean.
Bath Room as Laboratory In various upstairs rooms are housed the hospitals training school, while a bath-room is used as the hospital laboratory. The entrance hall has been converted into the eye department, Outside in the spacious grounds of the school there is one fent, It is used to accommodate tae hospital's single T. B. patient. The summer house is used by the wash-amahs. "We sleep on the floor here", they exclaimed, "there are an awful lot of beetles about."
The hospital now cares for 90 patients, instead of its usual number of 155. The out-patient department, which usually deals with upwards of 400 patients a day, now handles a mere 20 or so. A number of the 3t. Luke's staff have been transferred to ihe Number Two Base Hospital in the French Concession, and three foreigners and 19 Chinese doctors remain to carry on the work of the hospital.
Despite difficulties encountered through insufficient supplies and equipment, the hospital is bravely cartying on; and has adjusted itself completely to its new surroundings, certainly the pleasantest imaginable.
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