afternoon atthe Shanghai Bai ers' Club. Among those pre were Dr. F.C. Yen, Miss ing, ats Macd Yen, Mes 'Sino, Messrs. Vinson Lee, Anson T. Wong, David W. K. An, Chu, John C. Lind' and Wa. "Under the chairmanship of Dr. B.C. Yen, the new president of the Mission, the following, aetions were take!
In accepting the petition of Dr.
Nilsen, the Norwegian Medical Missionary in Sinwha, Hunan, it was decided that the Mission undertake" the task building the new leprosarium in thay city with the land, furni by the local Committee which will be known in future as the "Sin-wha Auxiliary of the Chinese Mission to Lepers." It is expected to have the frst unit completed la three months with a capacity of 24 beds and to open the hospital in This will be the Hunan which leprosy its central and southern part, especially on the Kuangtung border.
Dr. "Jacobo Fajardo, the Direc-for of Health of the Philippine Government, wrote to the secrefariat of the Mission to the effect that 100 litres of the ethyl esters of chaulmoogra oil manufactured fat the world-famous Cullen Leper
Bed to Shanghai before the end of Colony Laboratory would be ship; July." It was decided that this would be distributed among the leper hospitals and elmies in the country as soon as it arrives.
committee composed of Dr. F. ©. Yen, Dr. D. G. Lai, Messrs.
K. Chu, Anson' Wong, and John Lind were appointed to make a careful study into the question of land for building the Shanghai Leprosarium which, once built, is expected to be a' model for the whole country.
For the second time an essay contest will be conducted in the autumn with a view to arousing the inter-
That for the defence of a country of such a wide area and. with s0 many open ports, China should at Yeast command an air force of 1,500 machines of a high standard—'and with the best and complete equip ment and provision for aviation, ai operated by a selected personnel was the view jen. Huang Ping-hong, former lof of the Avaition De: in an interview with' tives on July 23.
sri. Huang, who was sent Europe by the Governm this year to inspect a to leave for Nanking and Kiangsi shortly (o rapport his findings to Lin Sen, Chairman of the. Gov ind Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, ian_of the Military Council Ile has also drawn up p expansion of China's. aviation force for the Government.
It is unwise to maintain an army more than 2,000,000 strong. ini the "country, according to Gen. Huang. China's weakness national defence was fully exposed in the Japanese invasion, he said. If China had disbanded her surplus troops and with the expenses thus saved used for the strengthening of national defence and the air force, her position would be quite differen The Government, he continued, is conscious of the important role the aeroplane plays ju war, and both the officials and the people are cothe building up of an ilequate air force.
During his four months' inspection in Burope, Gen. Huang visited a number of aviation institutions in Tualy, France, England and. Germany. "He said he P. pressed by the lames. world play the Heading. Inthe next war was strengthened.
Doing the World' Wag. he scroplanés. were. used "to. detect nomy's activities, while big guns were relied upon as the inatfument Yor" dstruelinn, Aieade wae iny greatly Improved and capable carrying heavy loads of bomb. They. will be much more used for the purpose of destruction in the future, Gen.
Huang said.
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