Chungking, Jan. 27, 'An appeal to the United States {or assistance in medical personnel, supplies and school equipment, was made today by Dr. F.C. Yen, Direofor of the Chinese National' Health Administfation, in a brotdeast. ath Thus for the United States said, had spent over 200,000,000 United States dollars to promote health programme and medical education in China, Referring to malaria control in Yunnan province, Dr. Yon said the Ineldence of malaria there Was as Dbigh a8 80 per cent.
The problem, he asserted, was identical to that of Panama, but he declared: "Yunnan is 20 times bigger than the Panama Canal zone, and the population is about 80 times larger.
The Chinese Government, the doc-for continued, had established an fanti-malaria commission, with a fve-[year control and a three-year re-[Search programme.
Dr, Yen expressed appreciation of the assistance given by the United /States Public Health Service in send~ ing three malaria experts to China, and: also of the assistance given by experts of the League of Nations and the International Health Board Router. of the Rockefeller Foundation—
Chinese Delegation to Lhasa Welcomed Chungking, Jan. 20.
General Wu Chung-hsin, Chairman of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission, and his party arrived at Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, on January 35, amidst an unprecedented welcome accorded to them by Tibetan officials, according to a telegram just received? from Lhasa, All officials above the sixth rank and their available troops went in en-{irety outside the city to stage a unlgtie and extraordinarily pleluresque welcome ceremony in front of the famous Drepung Monastery.
Preparations aire now in progress for the forthcoming installation core-many' of the new Dalai Lama—
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