Party from Vienna Held Up in Canton Ten Austrian doctors who came out from Vienna at the request of the Chinese Red Cross Mission to render their services to the Chinese troops are at present stranded in Canton, after waiting there over two weeks without receiving any communication from the Chinese authorities. it was learned from reliable sources here yesterday. Responding to an appeal sent out to European doctors to come to China and give their help to the wounded, the doctors arrived at Canton at the end of December. The understanding on hich they came out here was that they should receive a salary of $500 per month, and that their travelling expenses between Europe and China would be paid.
The band of doctors are said to be most disturbed by the fact that they were asked to come out here, and then found themselves stranded in a foreign country with no ce munication from the mission whi asked them to come to China. One of the party, a Dr. H. Erben, is due to arrive in Shanghai in a few days time, and further information will then he available as to the misfortimes which the party of doctors is alleged to have suffered.
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