HELP FOR CHINA
Sut,—The China Medical Aid Committee appeals for assistance to carry on its work. For four years China has held out against the aggressor and war has produced devastation and destruction, not only of homes and industries but of hospitals, with an increasing number of wounded, sick and crippled needing medical aid. China, with slender medical resources, has valiantly attempted to deal with this suffering, and .Dr. Robert Lim, Director of the Chinese Red Cross, has set up numerous medical units for treating the sick and wounded and for training first-aid workers for the fighting services ; but in China the number of doctors with modern training is few, and in 1938 Dr. Lim appealed to the Western World for help. In 1939 this committee, in co-operation with a Norwegian Committee, sent out some twenty doctors who have now become heads of Red Cross Units and are striving with inadequate materials and very little trained assistance to create a medical service in the front line. The Chinese Red Cross, short of funds, asks us to maintain, at least in part, the doctors we sent out nearly two years ago.
In March of this year Dr. Lim wrote to us saying: - "Let me say how grateful we are here to all of you for still taking an interest in poor China while England is being so battered from the air. It is
simply splendid of the British people, and the common aim of our armies to struggle on against aggression and the example given by Britain has given the people of China a new stimulus to fight on."
Will you help us to carry on this humanitarian work and let China see that we appreciate to the full, amidst our own troubles, the great service to our cause afforded by her continued resistance to aggression? All donations should be sent to: Dr. E. R. C. Hambly, Treharrock,
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