The difficulties confronting New Zealand doctors working in the war zone in China were referred to by Sir James Elliott, chairman of the Far East Relief Funds Committee, in an interview in Wellington. From the latest reports received, he said, difficulty was being experienced in the transport of stores, and the doctors had to take a few instruments and essential drugs in their suitcases. As the railways were either all blown up or in the hands of the military, transport was an acute problem. A motor ambulance had been obtained from Hongkong to take stores to the field of operations on the Yellow River, but because of the tremendous distance it had to travel it had probably broken down by this time.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19659, 17 June 1938, Page 7
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