Chinese officials in charge of the removal said that they were carrying out orders from Mayor Chen Kung-po of the Chinese regime here. The apparatus which they were removing formerly belonged to the Greater Shanghai Municipal Hospital, they said. They intended to use them in the same Chinese hospitals Nantao branch to be opened in the next few weeks in Door Chia Road, Nantao, They would invite people to insp their hospital during the inauguration. Scores of Chinese officials, including some nurses, were seen inside the building checking the articles being taken away.
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