Canton, Mar. 22, full marching order, several Jtrundred women of Canton's War Rellet Corps paraded to-day in front fof the Municipal Government's ad-
Pretty girls, with their bobbed hair protruding from beneath steel-helmets, in blue uniforms and Koki puttees, they stood. smartly to attention during a military inspection. Many. of these women served the male Red Cross units on the Nanking front. "A few never turned.
The parade was a convincing example of the eMlctency achieved by the Relief Corps since its hurried Inception last summer, It now numbers over 1,500 men and women sore thoroughly capable of carrying four first-aid work; others in the process of being trained, The Corps has been divided Into two groups. One group s made up of 22 sections collaborating, with the various police stations of Canton, Here the virls wall during aircrald alarms, and should a bomb drop in their particular district, they are rushed to the scene in Jambulances or "The second group, comprising 300 10 400 Red Cross' soldiers of both sexes, waits at the Corps' headquarters for other emergency calls.
Another organization carries similar work in the interior districts, Following the review, three Red Crors lorries visited the' scene of a previous bombing, where four peasants: were killed," and demonstrated to foreign correspondents how they would work' in" actual warfare, bringing into. use their stretchers, bandages, etc. 'Twenty lyards away Chinese coolles were lowering four corpses Into burnedly assembled coffins, giving a grim, realistic touch to the Red Cross rehearsal, 'The Corps' number is growing dally. Tt intends to be, fully iprepared for any possible invasion of Kwangtung—Reuter,
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