CHINESE RED CROSS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1942, Page 3

CHINESE RED CROSS

BRITISH GRANT OF £41,500. (British Official. Wireless.) RUGBY, May 6. A grant-in-aid by the British Gov" ernment of £41,500 to the Chinese Red Cross was announced in the House of Commons. It is the first direct grant to be made by the British Government to this organisation. It is made at a time when the Chinese Red Cross is called on to undertake new and considerable commitments in the care of the Chinese armies co-operating in the defence of Burma; This direct grant-in-aid is a development in the established policy of the British Government to assist relief work in China which was exemplified by a grant-in-aid of £50,000 made on October 1, 1941, to the British Fund for the Relief of Distress in China. Of this sum £30,000 has already been spent in assisting the work and equipment of the Society of Friends . ambulance unit in China. This unit has a personnel of between 50 and 60 young men from Britain, and serving under the leadership of a Canadian doctor, has already done invaluable work in the care of the wounded. The Chinese Red Cross has faced and overcome almost insuperable difficulties since the outbreak of the SinoJapanese war, and owes much to the skill and. organising capacity of its general secretary, Dr. Sin, a graduate of Edinburgh University.