CHINESE DELEGATES

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1938, Page 18

CHINESE DELEGATES

CONFERENCE IN SYDNEY

Among the delegates to the International Women's Conference who arrived in Sydney last week from, overseas were Mrs. Fabian Chow, formerly Alice Lim Kee, of Melbourne, and Mrs. Elsie Lee Soong (states the "New Zealand Herald"). Both are well known' in Shanghai social circles, -and they will represent the Chinese Women's Club, one of the most influential organisations in China, on their visit to Australia. Mrs. Chow is also carrying greetings from the International Y.W.C.A. of Shanghai to the conference. -

Mrs. Chow, who went to China more than ten years ago, writes under the pen-name of "Wu Ai-lien," and has been contributing articles ,on* Chinese women and their 'activities to. foreign magazines- and daily newspapers, principally the "North China Daily: News" of Shanghai. In addition to'being an active member of the' Y.W.C.A., she is on the executive board of the Chinese Women's Club.

Mrs. Soong, well known socially, won fame as the most, plucky woman of Shanghai by her several visits to the war front, taking comforts to the soldiers, in ■ spite of the attendant danger. After the conference, the two delegates are expected to ( tour the Commonwealth, and will visit .friends.

Owing to the great • expansion- • of health services throughout the Union and the scarcity of qualified assistance in- South Africa the Johannesburg General Hospital is arranging to bring 24 staff nurses from England at an estimated cost of about £1000.