"Many doctors and nurses have left Hongkong and Canton to attended to the wounded. From the South Seas, from Europe and America, have come volunteers to serve in China's Red Cross. In. spite of the hardships and tigers of climate for which they are bound, they would not be denied, according to the information.
Penang recently sent an ambulance unit of 41 members; they are now undergoing intensive training in Canton for front line service, There arrived from Java recently a contingent of eighteen, including four doctors, fully equipped with ambulances and the necessary surgical and medical supplies. They are proceeding to the north under the auspices of the Chinese Red Cross.
One English surgeon had intended flying from England to China to volunteer his services to the Red Cross, His plane crashed in Europe but that did not deter him, He was in Hongkong recently and is now somewhere in China ready to work.
A young American surgeon came a month ago and he also is doing his bit somewhere in the north.
Six Austrian surgeons have been recruited from Vienna to supplement the existing medical personnel! in the base hospitals. Chinese doctors studying or working in America and Europe have returned in large numbers at the call of their motherland.
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