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Show THE LINTSING MEMORIAL HOSPITAL DURING WAR AND FAMINE. Bulletin from Lintsing, Shantung, by Hugh L. Robinson, The events and changes which have occurred in China during the last six months will be memorable in the world's history. At Lintsing, especially in the medical work, we have had the opportunity of observing a few of these significant happenings, and of knowing many of the actors in the story. It is possible that a review of the activities of the hospital during this period will be of interest to our frrends. In the winter of 1927 we were moderately busy in Lintsing and for the first time in several years there were no troops in town, and few bandits in the surrounding region. The medical needs in T'ungchow, where Mrs. Robinson was staying, just outside Peking, were so demanding that it was thought possible for me to spend the spring there in medical care and public health work for the students in the foreign and Chinese schools. Dr. Cooke returned from furlough in March and it wTas hoped that Dr. Hsu and she would be an adequate staff at Lintsing until after the summer vacation. In the first week in April, 1928, however, the Nationalist armies started a northern drive, with unexpectedly rapid success. A telegram came from Lintsing saying that I was needed there at once. I was fortunate in finding a physician of the Mennonite Mission who had been forced to leave his work, to take over my duties at T'ungchow. Then I rushed south to Lintsing. If I had been four days later there would have been no auto service from the railroad to Lintsing, and in a few days more there was no train service. I was just in time. By the time I arrived in Lintsing, in the third week of April, the Nationalist armies were pressing forward rapidly. A hard battle was being waged.between Ch'u Yu P'u's men, of the northern side, and Feng's men from the south, only sixty miles south of us, at Taimingfu. All the ammunition and flour for Ch'u's armies went through Lintsing by cart or boat. In another week the advance of General Chiang's men to Tsinanfu outflanked the northern armies at Taimingfu and they began to retreat to Tehchow. First came the wounded in boats on the canal. Many went through rapidly, out every day. Hundreds came to the hospital for dressings on the way. A few of the most desperately wounded were allowed by their Offices s to enter the |