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Show They sent me to the passport office to apply for another visa, because I can't leave India until I enter India, and I evidently haven't entered yet. After running around to various offices for several days, I finally g«ifc it in the hxnds of a higher officer,, who saw the humor of the situation. I expect he'11 "get me into the country by tomorrow, after which they'll allow me to leave the country,' If it were not for the medical supplies I could reach my destination before New Year's, but their transport is a real problem, I am beginning to find out how many departments the army has and how many offices each department has* • I may have to go to Delhi to get thihgs put through (if at all). The commercial company can almost certainly take the stuff, but it would cost about U.S. ,7,000, It is barely possible that China Lend- Lease might pay for it,- applying It to reverse lend-lease.. If so, I would be all set, but I won't know for several day-s. It doesn't seem too likely, AS a last resort, I may have to cable to Yale-in- China and ask them to raise the money, ixy military permit to enter China expires January 11th; so If I don't get in by then, I'll have to try for an extension. There is not sufficient room in the main building of the Lee Memorial Mission, for all of us, and you can't get hotel accommodations; So some of us live In the girls' school "across the square. I am In a big room with seven or eight other men. I hasten to add that the school is on vacation'and the gifrl'i are not here. Preparations for Christmas are going on all about. The Methodist Church (which Is connected with the mission) is having a carol service day after tomorrow and I have been asked to join their choir for the occasion. An even stranaer request came from one of the China refugees here to-day, he is taking a Christmas service of some kind for service men and asked me to sing a duet with him and accompany it on the UkeleleeJ The uke was given to me by the army officer on the ship. He had several "for moral purposes." .i Having nothing better to do last month, I worked on a little research . I found that a number of men, including me, could not take salt tablets (which were very, desirable In the hot weather) because it made them nauseated, I decided to take some soda bicarb with it and found that that eliminated the nausea. So then I studied 98 men, found that 11 of them got sick with the salt tablets, but that 8 of these could control the nausea by taking soda bicarb* I wrote the material up and will probably send it to the Surgeon Generals' office, because if it works on a larger scale, it might increase the efficiency of workers, engineers soldiers, etc. in hot climates. December 30th % •.*. I T m a { r a i d t h a t x am UP to my old tricks of planning a long letter,, and tnen not finishing. The more things that happen, the less time to write about them. But we'll push on from here and really get it off this time. |