The Archive · 1939

Woman Doctor Offers

Services to Army Touched by Pitiful State Of Poor Chinese

Madame Haruko Sugawara, Japanese doctor, who has been operating a private hospital in Japan, arrived here on Sunday afternoon on the Nagesaki Maru en route to Hankow io head the clinic of the Central China office of the Dojin-kai. according to the "Tairiku Shimpo" yesterday morning.

Touched by the pitiable condition of Chinese suffering from diseases and inspired by the example of pacification workers in China, the paper said, Madame Sugawara offered her services to the Japanese military authorities.

While in Hankow last April to visit her elder brother, who is engaged in pacification activities, she consulted Major-Gen. Susumu Morioka, chief of the Hankow Pacification Section of the Japanese forces, who helped her to obtain the appointment to the Dojin-kai clinic.

The Dojin-kai, Universal Benevolent Society, is a medical

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