The Archive · 1940

British Relief Unit Head in Chungking To Establish Headquarters In Kweiyang

Chungking, Aug. 15.

Mr. Evert Barger, head of a British relief unit for Central China (professor of Asiatic history at Bristol University), accompanied by two other members of the unit, Mr. Phillip Wright and Mr. Michael Sullivan, has arrived in Chungking and will cal] on Government leaders, including General Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang Kai-shek; Dr. of the Chinese Army Medical Service.

The British unit is composed of six members, including two mechanics.

a stay here of about three weeks, the party will return to Kweiyang to establish its headquarters the International Red Cross The party expects to visit various Chinese war fronts and to secure medical supplies and funds for relief work in free China. Sufficient funds are said to have been raised in England to support the unit in China for at least two years—Reuter.

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