Kiangwan Home Suffers in Local Fighting Since moving to its new office at No. 75, Love Lane, Bubbling Well Road, the W.C.T.U. of China, under ihe leadership of Mrs. Herman C. E. Liu, Mrs, Y. P, Wu, Miss Chen Loh-hwei and others has been very busy with war time activities. Two classes in nurse's training have been well attended, three times a week by more than one hundred young women, and the third class is in process of registration, The doctor-teachers are all voluntary and they are Miss K. Y. Woo and Mr. Sung Ta-jen.
hand, by its members, with towels, Hundreds of comfort-bags, made by soap, toothbrush and paste and cause cloth to bind wounds before doctors can be reached have been sent to the soldiers at the front, Baskets of oranges, boxes of candies and leaflets of praise were some other things among the gifts sent to the hospitals, With representative visitors.
As now the weather is getting cold, ihe Union has started a sewing class for the soldiers at the front, The W.C.T.U. office was formally located in 205 and 200 Yuen Ming Yuen Road with a hostel for business women, a Home Economies School ior young girls, and a Chinese Woman's Exchange to help women to do business, Since the war, activities have been greatly effected. The place that received most injury was the W.C.T.U. Shanghai Settlement "House in Kiangwan, The women and children inmates were caught in the fight. They travelled more than ten days to escape to Shanghai with practically nothing. They are now housed in a refugee camp. Though exempt from house rent, the Union is still responsible for their food, clothing and education, As it is very difficult for the Union to keep on a charitable organization in war time, the inmates have organized themselves into Woman's Patriotic Labour League, aiming to find employment as servants. It is understood they have pledged to give one dollar each month from their wages to buy liberty bonds to help the Government.
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