Officials of the new Chinese regime, including those of the Public Health Bureau of the Greater Shanghai Special Municipal Government, yesterday morning proceeded to the Shanghai Hospital at 172 Route Ghisi, one of the two hospitals established by the Shanghai Anti-tuberculosis Association at 32 Tszepang Road, and removed the apparatus belonging to the Kuomintang official quarters affix hated with Chungking and which have been lent to the hospital. The removal which was effected with the assistance of trucks, was met with the silent protest of foreign authorities of the hospital following protracted negotiations during which they refused to allow them to be taken over unless by force.
No violence was resorted to, and as there was no resistance and the removal of the apparatus. including the X-ray machinery and other important articles valued between $150.00 and $200,000, was carried out by the new Chinese officials while the French police looked on. Even beds were threatened to be removed and in that case the authorities of the hospital said that the best they could do was to place the 60 inpatients, mostly suffering from tuberculosis, on the floor for the time being. A representative of the "North-China Daily News" who was present at the time when the removal was still in progress saw that the procedure was so thorough-going that he felt that work of the institute might be partially paralyzed for some to come.
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