The Archive · 1934

DR. WU LIEN-TEH IN EUROPE

Recent Visit Described to Shanghai Rotarians Members of the Shanghai Rotary Club, who held their usual weekly tiin' meeting at the Metropole Hotet on Thursday, listened with Interest to an entertaining address by Dr. Wu Lien-teh, Director of the National quarantine Service at Shanghai, on What I saw in Europe."

Introduced by Mr, W. Vinson Lee, Chairman of the Programme Committee, the speaker of the day sal "It was whilst. the biennial confer~ ence of the Chinese Medical Asso-lation was holding its sessions Nanking at the beginning of April, that I received instructions to attend the 2ist meeting of the Health Committee of the League of Nations at Geneva. Landing at Brindisi, 1 proceeded to Rome, where I had not been since Iwas there for a short time as a student on my way' to England in 1896, Of course, whilst it the leading traditional landmarks: remained, one was struck by" the great strides of progress that had been made since then, in the widen-Jing of the streets, and the introduc tion of motor-buses, etc. In Geneva my whole time was taken Up, naturally, with the work which I had been sent there to do, but, this concluded, and finding myself with three weeks leisure, I proceeded to Paris, via

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