the forsaken countryside where homes were reduced to ashy ruins, where smouldering fires were still consuming and occasional Japanese soldiers-marched to and fro I came across two old men, one blind, the. other a cripple.
They were too far api art to be of any companionship to each other, but both shared the same fate—sure death by starvation, Both were over eighty and in the great haste to save their own lives had been left to their own lot by their terror-stricken relatives, Surely if the Japanese had any compassion left they would respect old age and spare them but I was told they would burn the old men unless removed sought to encourage the old men put had no way of rescuing them inti I had spoken to the Japanese seers, After much discussion back ind forth the lives of the old men were granted me and in two broken ekshaws which we found in the rained countryside we pulled the two jId'men to places of safety.
War Sufferers One group of war sufferers are the aged left behind to die of starvation to face the point of the bayonet—ind neither is inviting. Many of uch are in the refugee camps.
Kind of sufferers are now put in camps with plenty of fresh air, comfortable beds, extra portions of food, medical care, the comforts of religion anda well trained staff of medical mien and nurses, both foreign and 62-year old fisherman rescued by the Chinese, Owing to the peculiar more or less permanent condition of these sufferers this work promises to become permanent, for "the sick we hi ave always with us."
Refugees sound in body will sooner or later be absorbed into society, but the old and poor, the tubercularand -Poor, the leper reduced to a begging life will need constant attention, Unexpectedly Japanese conquering cops swooped down upon the coun-Villages near Shanghai, In terri-nie haste the Chinese xetugees, young and old, rich and poor, now all shar-inf one fate got a few of their be-jonging together and off they rushed what they thought were places of But no permanence can be prow mised such sufferers unless the well have compassion on their suffering fellow-men. The old aged and the tubercular now housed at 80 Route Ghisi are cared for by the committee for the care of the aged and infirm, of which Mr. Page is both the secre-
Rescued Old men from camp for aged and infirm at 80 Rte Ghisi. safety. Upon a door carried by four lay a. youth, coughing and excited. Red flushes on his cheeks betrayed his disease, Reduced to skin and bones: with @ sputtim cup at his side, his aged mother could not bear the thought of leaving him behind—a prey to atrocities, the Chinese now are sure of the fate all their countrymen may expect at the advance of Japanese soldiers. Just as the Japanese closed in on the man carried by hig four rescuers, he slipped in over the bridge leading to the foreign Settlement in Shanghai—safe, Safe, but in a refugee camp with its crowding, with its dangers, with its Inck of proper food, and' care. Safe! yes, but only safe to diet 'A second group of sufferers from the war torn areas of China are the hundreds of sufferers from tuberculosis. Many early cases flared up to frank cases by the additional sutforing associated with their fight and later ineMcient refugee camp care.
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