Doctors and Nurses Operating Behind Various Fronts: Many Foreign Volunteers EVERAL thousand cases of medical supplies and scores of experienced doctors and nurses have passed through Canton from abroad for the war areas in China during the past three months, according to information received from the south yesterday. With the aid of these supplies and personnel, the Chinese Red Cross has been able to, organize medical mobile units operating behind the various fronts.
According to the report, each unit consists of five doctors, five male nurses and five dressers, in addition to stretcher and orderly staff.
These units move from one hospital to another and. operate on wounded, cases brought in from the front, look after them till they can be left safely in other hands and then move on to Where they are needed most.
According to the National Red Cross Society of China, the most urgent need is the t of these mobile units. To maintain these units large sums of money and quantities of supplies based ona standard list are required.
The International Medical Relief Committee of Hongkong is supporting one such unit at the rate of $1,200 Chinese currency- a month. The Hongkong Branch of the National Women's Relief Association is also supporting one such unit, while other
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