Evening star., 1938-11-30
Ban on War Materials
Backed as Red Cross
Worker Tells Of fChina
Dr.. ToIbot's Appeal
Inspires Protest to
Supplying Jupon

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Supplying Jupon
An enthusiastic audience response
to an appeal last night by DR.. Harry
Talbot, representative of the Chinese
Red Cross, for constructive evidence
Of American disapproval of the Jap
anese invasion of China resulted in
the drafting of resolution, signed
by each member of the audience,
registering opposition to the ship
ment of materials used for war
purposes to the aggressor nation
Japan"
DR.. Talbot, concluding a three
week visit to the United States,
spoke as the guest of honor at a
dinner sponsored by the Washington
Committee to Aid China. The Red
Cross worker laid much of the re-
sponsibility for the continuance of
the Japanese assault, at the door of
the United States, contending that
SIS per cent of the war materials
used by Japan come from this coun-
try.
DR.. Talbot is making the present
tour in an effort to raise badly
needed supplies and to enlist per-
sonnel for medical work with the
Chinese Red Cross in China.
Cites Hospital Needs.
After tracing briefly the recent
history of China to show the steady
growth of the Japanese aim for its
domination, DR.. Talbot vividly de-
scribed the immediate need for hos
pitalization facilities. He termed the
conditions in the early, hastily
erected hospitals as 'indescribably
filthy" due to lack Of experienced
medical personnel. Lack of medical
equipment and personnel resulted.
he asserted, in innumerable deaths.
Under the Chinese Red Cross,
directed by DR.. Robert K. S. Linn,
conditions became improved. Base
hospitals were established, he ex-
planned, and the first attempts to set
up and maintain field hospitals,
heretofore completely lacking, we're
undertaken.
DR.. Talbot's most dramatic appeal
came with his description Of the
suffering of civilians under bombing
attacks by the Japanese The Chi
nese Red Cross, he pointed out, has
three functions: The treatment of
soldiers in military hospitals, the
treatment of civilian victims of air
raids, and the treatment of victims
OF cholera and other epidemics.
Following his statement that "55
per cent of the war materials used
by Japan come from this country"
he urged representations to the State
Department and President Roosevelt
to protest this country's part in the
japanese invasion. America is re-
sponsible for hundreds of thousands
of people in China being killed." he
declared
Warns Against Diversion.
He said that many contributions
for Chinese relief actually went to
parts of China under Japanese DOM
ination, and asked that contributions
be sent through actual Chinese agen-
cies.
Dr. Talbot is to leave the United
States shortly for England. where he
also will seek supplies and equip
ment, especially gas masks for the
Chinese.
Arthur Clarendon Smith proposed
the motion, which later was drawn
up in the form of a resolution oppos-
ing the shipment of materials for
war purposes to Japan, and pledging
support to the maintenance of dem
ocracy in China.
DR.. w. M. Gewehr, professor of
history at American University.
spoke first on the program. He
stressed the fundamental differences
between the ancient democratic
principles upon which the govern
ment of China always has been
based, and the military tradition
which dominates "the rear-view mir
ror picture of Japanese history DR..
Gewehr formerly served as an ex-
change professor at Using Hua Uni
versity at Peiping
DR.. Mortimer Graves, secretary of
the American Council of Learned
Societies, introduced both speakers.
Seated at the speakers table was
DR.. Co Tui, member of the American
Bureau for Medical Aid to China.
Arthur Hersey, member of the spon-
soring organization, introduced Dr..
Graves.