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4 NEWS OF UNITED CHINA RELIEF ART SHOW TO BENEFIT UCR First Labor Exhibit Will Open In N.Y. The first labor art show in America, sponsored by Dressmakers' Union, local 22 of the L.L.G.W.U., will be held at the Ferargil Galleries in New York City from October 19 to November 7 for the benefit of United China Relief. The Dressmakers' Union, which was responsible for the now famous review "Pins and Needles," opened an art class to its members two years ago. Under the guidance of Seth Hoffman, a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Ecole des Beaux Arts of Paris, the art students have produced more than 60 pictures which competent art critics have judged worthy of Exhibition. Among the prizes to be awarded are one year scholarships to the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League. DR. HU SHIN IN FITCHBURG DRIVE A United China Relief campaign will open in Fitchburg, Mass., on Sept. 21 under the chairmanship of George R. Wallace. The drive will reach a climax on Sept. 29 with a "Salute to China" night. Ambassador Hu Shih will speak and Howard Marsh, original lead in The Student prince and Blossom Time, will be master of ceremonies. Alma kitchen, singer and radio commentator, Aviatrix Lee Ya-ching and Miss Pauline Benton's Shadow Players will participate in the program. Before the rally at the Fitchburg high school the UCR committee will receive the guests of honor at the Fitchburg Country Club. ABMAC TO TAKE PART IN HEALTH EXHIBIT The American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, participating agency of United China Relief, will take part in an exhibit to be staged in connection with the annual meeting of the American Public health Association in St. Louis, October 27 to 30. "China's Health in War" will be the theme of ABMAC's exhibit, which will show the progress of China's public health organization during the five years of her war with Japan. it will picture China's anti-epidemic program, the organization of the Chinese National health Administration and China's need for more Army doctors, nurses, sanitary engineers, other health specialists, Chinese farmers, once peaceful citizens, today are on the warpath after the Japanese in a self-formed "Revenge Detachment". Chinese Peasants Form Northwest Revenge Corps Reports To China Aid Council Tell of New Guerrilla Support In Border Regions Thousands of Chinese peasants living in the Border Region of Northwest China have formed "revenge Detachments" which are fighting with Chinese guerrillas, China Aid Council reports. The "Revenge Detachments" owe their creation to a large-scale "mopping-up" action that the Japanese launched some months ago against the Wutaishan region of Shensi Province. Sixty thousand troops, supported by air action, took part in the campaign, which was launched by the Japanese with a three-point purpose: "kill all, burn all, rob all," and was directed indiscriminately against cities, civilians, hospitals and Chinese industrial cooperatives. During the bombing the town of Fuping-hsien was leveled. in other places, harvests were either fired, or turned over to the enemy cavalry horses for feed. The Japanese drove the villagers into the mountains, then machine-gunned them. Five hundred civilians were reported slain. Throughout the region, machine-gunning of civilians who had sought refuge in the countryside was general and many individual atrocities against women and children were reported. One old man whose entire family was slain by the Japanese was credited with having started the "Revenge Detachments." The movement grew, and according to a letter received by China Aid Council, has spread throughout this part of China. Although the "mopping up" forces were eventually turned back, heavy losses were suffered by the soldier and civilian defenders. In the medical field, the losses have been unusually severe, China Aid Council reports. The assistant medical officer of the Wutaishan region, Dr. Yu Sen-ha, and 31 doctors, assistants and pharmacists on his staff were killed. Losses among nurses and field first-aid workers are presumed to have been even greater. The staffs of the Bethune Memorial Training School, of the Peace Hospital of Wutaishan, and of Dr. corns, of the Indian Medical Unit, have been reported safe. All the wounded in hospitals in this area were removed without loss. Despite losses in medical personnel, a program for better public health, more medical research and improved technical training is being put into effect in this area. New caves are being excavated to extend the Shenshi international Peace Hospital, one of four such bases in the guerrilla Northwest areas which are supported through the China Aid Council. Shortage of personnel and decentralization of hospital work is so great in these areas that doctors and staff nurses often walk as much as 10 miles a day to visit and attend cases. Nurses who have expressed a desire for further training at the guerrilla medical schools attached to each hospital have thus far been unable to take courses because of the burden of work. For the first time in six years, the region had a typhoid epidemic last year because funds and equipment were lacking for the manufacture of the necessary vaccine. The institute, which also manufactures smallpox vaccine and other sera, needs at least $2,000 US for future typhoid epidemic prevention. CIC TO HAVE 4TH BIRTHDAY Indusco Hears Plans For Growth in China The fourth anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives will be celebrated this month. David Leacock, Technical Director of Indusco, the American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial cooperatives, has announced receipt of dispatches reporting that Dr. H. H. Kung, Chinese Finance Minister and President of the CIC, recently presided at the Chung-king meeting at which the industrial cooperatives were pledged to double their membership and treble production during the coming year. By a circuitous route that took it through India, Africa and across the Atlantic by air, Indusco has just received a message from the Shuangshipu depot of the CIC. Shuanghihpu is in Shensi Province. "Although this is but a very small village, yet in the chain of industry we try to build in China's Northwest, it has an importance that is out of proportion to its size," wrote T'ung Li-shu, depot master in the Shuangshihpu area. "We burn coke enough here to smelt grey iron; we make firebrick, tiles, textiles and machinery. There are also uniform tailoring and leather tanning cooperatives. We hope that in this next stage we shall be able to increase our work and build on a truly great cooperative foundation." The message, among the signers of which was Rewi Alley, chief adviser to the CIC, wished final victory to the United Nations and sends "our best wishes for a cooperative world of tomorrow." Mr. Leacock announces that many blueprints, technical books and solutions to technical problems have been sent to Shuangshihpu by American technicians and engineers. N.Y.WIN-THE-WAR SHOW FEATURES UCR EXHIBIT United China Relief was represented by a picturesque Chinese bazaar at the Win-The-War Show staged by Hearn's department store in New York City from Aug. 17 to 29. The display, designed by Clean Throckmorton, included merchandise for sale and it featured daily showings of "Western Front," U.C.R.'s documentary film New York's Mayor LaGuardia, who visited the U.C.R. display on opening day, described it as "not only interesting but instructive." The Same exhibit will be used by U.C.R. at the Women's International Exhibit at New York's Grand Central Palace. it will open in late October under sponsorship of Secretary of State Hull.
