Tokyo, Apr, 18.
Two famed epidemiologists today agreed to head two little armies of doctors and nurses who will descend on North and Central China this summer to fight epidemics.
Dr. Itsumaro Takagi, member of the Epidemic Research Institute of Waseda University, consented ło head the party operating from Peiping.
The Central China medical mission will be headed by Dr, Tenji Taniguchi, Professor of the Osaka University of Medicine. Its base of opera: tions will be in Shanghai, Organized jointly by the Foreign Ministry's Cultural Affairs Bureau and the Dojin Kai a philanthropic society active in China, the. two medical squads will have Y.1,000,000. at their disposal to fight epidemics between June and October.
The heads of the two groups will visit their posts late this month, On their return io Tokyo, fifty doctors will leave Japan for' Peiping and Shanghai,—Domei.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.