China Red Cross Preparing for 5,000 Wounded Nanking. Oct. 5.
Plans for the establishment of a large-scale hospital capable of accommodating 5,000 wounded soldiers in Nanking are now being made by the China Red Crosse Society, accord. ing to Dr. Peng Ching-chow. sceretary-general of the organization, in fu interview with the Central News surgical parties have been despatched: to Shansi and Hopet for active service singe the outbreak of hostilities in North China. To take care of the wounded in the Shanghai area, he said, many hospitals have been established at important points along the Nanking-Shanghai and the Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Railways.
He expressed the hope that these hospitals will be expanded creased in course of time to leet the News,
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