Shanghai Special Municipal Government, who have been removing apparatus from the Shanghai Hospital at 172 Rue Ghisi during the past few days, stopped doing so yesterday. Many generous people have helped the hospital in various ways, providing many beds for inpatients mostly suffering from tuberculosis, The Chinese officials once threatened to take away beds but so far no such step is known to have been taken.
Among the articles removed are,|the X-ray equipment and other valuable machinery much of which cannot be replaced for the time being. Foreign authorities of the hospital, which is one of the two established by the Shanghai, Anti-tuberculosis Association, have been borrowing apparatus from other institutions since the Chinese officials began removing the articles which, they, consider to belong to the Chinese ' government, The apparatus was entrusted to the care of the hospital by Kuomintang officials before their withdrawal from Shanghai during the hostilities here, Government under the presidency of Mr. Wang Ching-wei, Mr, Koh Ishii, Deputy Spokesman for the Board of Information, revealed to foreign correspondents today.
Asked when the date of such recognition would be, Mr. Ishii declared that he had not been informed of the exact date—
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