A. farewell luncheon was given by the Board of Directors of the Chinese Mission to Lepers yesterday noon at the Navy Y.M.C.A. Cafe in honour of Dr. E. S. Tayau, newly-elected president of the n, who is sailing today by the of Russia to attend the International House Party of the Moral Rearmament League to be held in Los Angeles in July.
Among those present were Messrs. L. T. Yuan, S. K Lug, James Tsao, T. C. Wu, Mrs. T. K. M. Sino, Mrs ^J. H. Sun, Mrs. L. C. Hylbert, Drs. "ling Foh-po, Szeming Sze and S. C
The Rev. T. C. Wu, General Secretary of the Mission who has just returned from an extensive trip in south-west, gave an interesting report of his impressions and experiences, He spoke among other things of the magnitude and beauty of the country, wonderful engineering of 14,000 kilometres of motor roads, optimism of the people with reference to the present Sino-Japanese conflict, and prevalence of leprosy in the whole region, Yunnan claims to have 7,000 known cases of the dread disease waiting to be isolated.
The new officers elected were as follows:
President, Dr, E. S. Tyau; Vice-Pres-Yuan and Mrs. T. K. Mr. James Tsao; "The Medical Huizenga, J. D. G. Lai, John Shen, U. K. Ko 3 H, Lee.
Leprosarium Committee:—Dr. V. T.
E. S. Tyau, Dr. Lee S. Huizenga, Jordan, Dr. F. Reiss, Mrs. L.
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