News has now reached Shanghai of the sad plight of Dr. Milch, He has been ordered to stop giving his lectures to the junior doctors, and is continually being advised to accept his passage money and return to Vienna, despite the contract given to him by the Chinese Government. He is now practically without funds, and at any moment expects to hear that his wife and family in Vienna have had to apply to the Austrian Government for aid.
A man with a great reputation and many medical degrees, he is reported to be feeling his position—one of extreme poverty and practically entire dependence on a few friends—acutely, but is determined to "stick it out," nad try to persuade the authorities to let him live up to his contract.
Occasionally, one of his few friends invites him to lunch or dinner, and he endeavours to make the most of the occasion. He is staying in, an empty lot near the Students' Club solely through the kindness of the caretaker. He is forced to buy about eighteen coppers' worth of food at the coolie kitchens, and has had to go without food on more than one occasion to pay for stamps for letters home.
In a letter, a portion of which was shown to the "North-China Daily News," he writes with genuine feeling and thankfulness of a loan of $10 given to him by Dr. Eh. H. Ouyang, a German-trained Chinese doctor married to a German lady in Canton.
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