The Archive · 1941

Beds May Be Removed

Tune 12, That the beds in the "Shanghai Hospital at 172 Route Ghisi which authorities of the Greater Shanghat Special Municipal Government thre ened to take over. claiming that 1 oe belonged to the Chinese got ment in addition to other apparatus already taken over. may eventually bbe removed at the end of this month by Chinese officials for their own us fu a Nantao hospital is strongly in dicated in a statement published by the new régme's press yesterday.

The Chinese authorities are quoted saying that during negotiations {in January, they refrained from taking over the. equipment in the hospital, having consideration for the patients! 'The authorities of the ho: pital were then told to provide own equipment. Several months have passed and on May 10 Mayor Chen Kung-po formally' notifed the French Consul-General here pressing his intention to take over the equipment, Replying it Is said, the "French" Consul-General at of the hospital and prior to the re moval, the head of the Bureau of Public Health of the Chineve city regime visited the authorities of the box pital in person.

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