DMITTING that it could not be truthfully said that the work carried on by the Red Cross Society of China had been as satisfactory as the gravity of the situation demanded, Dr. Kohlhaus C. C. Pang, Secretary General, yesterday issued an appeal to local medical circles, detailing the present position with regard to Red Cross work.
Dr. Pang emphasized that the present hostilities surpassed those of 1932 in scale and duration. Shanghai was not ideally suited to the establishment of base hospitals.
Reports that the Nanking authorities had ordered the wholesale €vacuation of all hospitals in Shanghai to the interior were unfounded.
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