In a letter to the "North-China Daily News" yesterday, Dr. Szeming Sze, General Secretary of the Chinese Medical Association, states:
With reference to the publication in your columns of an article on the maltreatment of Austrian doctors, the following excerpt published in the South China Morning Post" of Jan-vary 31, may give the other side of the picture.—
A vigorous denial of a report published locally to the effect that ten Austrian doctors who had come out to China to give their services were now stranded in China without assistance from the Government, was made yesterday by Dr. Ettinger," at whose request the party came out, Dr. Etfinger said the facts were that the men were at first under the imsession that they were to work solely or the International Red Cross and when facilities for this work failed and they were asked to continue at the front, they declined to do so. The Government thereupon paid each of the doctors £100 and they. on their own wishes, were released from their contracts." The doctors signed a statement given to Dr. C. Y. Wu. secretary in Hongkong of the Chinese Red Cross, to ihe effect that they were satisfied with their treatment and then departed for their homes.
There were two exceptions, one being H. Erben. Dr. Ettinger states that Dr. Erben never had a contract. /The Other doctor was Dr. Milch who wants io stay and continue to give his services in the war.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.