Distinguished Visitor Here Tells of Dr. Holland Deep interest in and anxiety over the Quetta earthquake was displayed by Major-General and Mrs.
Wilson, who passed through Shanghai on Monday on the Mantua. Gen. and Mrs. Wilson are proceeding Home from India on leave, spending a fort-hight in Japan and another fortnight at Banff, in Canada, on the way. Gen. Wilson is at present commanding the Rawalpindi District and consequently under his charge the South Wales Borderers and the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, recently in China. Lost year, he finished his three-year tenure of the post of Commandant of the Staff College at Quetta. Therefore, the news of the disaster, which he received on the Mantua by wire-Jess between Hongkong and Shanghai, was particularly distressing to him and his wife.
The Staff College being high up, out of the affected area, seems to have been untouched, like Cantonments, litre lower down. Gen. Wilson had noted, 100, that no mention was made of casualties in the Mission Hospital, which has a special reputation by reason of the remarkable personality of Dr. Henry Tristram Holland, who has been in charge of that institution for 35 years, having come there in 1900. The Mission Hospital seems, from the telegrams, to have been within the stricken area, bul, as no reference has been made to it, it is hoped that it has escaped disaster, and specially that Dr. Holland's valuable life has been spared.
Surgical Magic Worker and even among the Afghans over the border. Afghans come in from far and near, even from Kan-daher, to be treated by him. His eminence as an eye-specialist is known far beyond India, and when he goes on tour in Sind, it is said that English and Indian doctors from India, and Americans from America, come' as interested observers of his handling of cases of cataract. Eye trouble is, of course, very prevalent in the sand-ridden tracts of the North west Frontier, and Dr, Holland's marvellous experience and treatment have won for him the deep affection and gratitude of the inhabitants of the country in which he has so long laboured. It is even recorded that he successfully treated an English girl sent to him all the way from Harley Street as a hopeless case of blindness.
"Dr. Holland's sons are now finish. ing their university education and preparing to join him in his work. in India. He himself was educated Loretio and Edinburgh University, where he was Medallist in Anatomy and Prizeman in Surgery. He was decorated with the Silver Kaiser-i-
Hind Medal in 1910, and subsequently received the exceptional distinct ion of the Gold Medal in 1925 and the Bar to that medal in 1901. Dur-Ing the War he acted as Civil Surgeon Hyderabad, as Chief Medical Omcer, Baluchistan, and Captain in the RAME. (T.
War made a Lieutenant-Colone in the Indian Army Reserve of Officers in 1928. "A keen golfer, angler, and tennis player, he {s a most versatile man ind' Tightly" beloved throughout Baluchistan.
Gen. Wilson was very distressed to Team of the death of Mr. H.
Francis, an experienced irrigation officer ent to Baluchistan by the Bombay Government—and, incidentally, a veteran hockey player, gen~ erally popular in Quetta, sesTelegrams on the Quetta situation' witt be found on page 404. by Mr. D. J. King, Mayor of Sungkiang, Capt. D. C. Wu, Chief of Police, and Mr. K. M. Soo, local financier, who later entertained with reception in his spacious home, which adjoins the premises.
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