The French Government has just made the Reverend Father Jacquinot de Besange, SI, a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, in recognition of the services rendered by him to humanity, and lis a token of their gratitude for the accomplishment of a task which has evoked world-wide admiration, France thus wished io honour both the missionary and the Frenchman. This news will be welcomed by Shanghailanders who well know the magnificent work done by Father Jacquinot during the hostilities in Shanghai, notably the creation of a safety zone for refugees in Nantao to which his name is likely to remain attached in history.
Instead of moving out, the population presents all the aspects of digging in for the winter in the Zone. In spite of very serious crowding and original instructions not to bring in. furniture (because it was thought they would go home in a week of, two), they are now bringing in thei things in order to salvage them from destruction. With only two foreign doctors, the health situation has very dangerous possibilities, but so far the Zone been fortunate enough not to' have much sickness. Requests for. permission for two doctors and two nurses to come to Nanking have been refused.
The University Hospital has been kept full caring for seriously wounded civilians and now an increasing number of maternity cases of poor women from camps. A few cases of diphtheria have appeared and cold, wet weather s brought many colds. An increase ichness is expected.
60,00 in Camps The International Committee is still conducting twenty-five refugee camps tutional building: in the Zone. These ca.aps now have about 60,00 persons living in them. The largest of these camps are: University of Nanking Middle School with 15,000, Old Ministry of Communications with 12,000, University of Nanking main campus with 6,000, and Ginling College with 5,5.
Owing to the rush preceding the Japanese entry and the disorder since, it was impossible to arrange soup kitchens in all these camps. Consequently, Zone authorities had to resort to distributing free rice to those who could not buy rice. In the camps and the soup kitchens conducted by the Red Swastika and Red Cross Societies, 50,000 people on either hsi fan (rice gruel) or free rice ere being fed daily. Valuable help in this came from a gift of over 2,000 bags of rice by a friendly Japanese detachment to the Red Swastika Society.
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