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Ladies and gentlemen. I appreciate the welcome you have given me. When I was a little girl I heard about the friendliness and the hospitality of the American people and now that I have lived in America I find that all that I heard was true. 

So many people ask me why I took up aviation and why I stay in this country rather than fly a plane in China. As in Great Britain, women in China are not yet permitted to fly army planes. Therefore, I did not know [[strikethrough]] where [[/strikethrough]] how I could be of most service to my country. One day during a terrible air raid in Shanghai we stood at the window watching the bombs fall. As soon as the raid was over we rushed out to pick up the wounded, but we had no medical equipment with which to help them. Anaesthetics are a rare luxury in China. Most operations are performed without any anaesthetic whatsoever. Surgical dressings, drugs, and sera are scarce.

It is hard to stand over a wounded soldier or civilian and know that his life could be saved with the drugs and anaesthetics that science has produced. To know that the life will be lost because those drugs are not available.........! As I stood helpless, watching a wounded man die, knowing that we could have saved his life with only a few cents' worth of medical supplies, I determined then and there that I would do everything possible to prevent that terrible loss of life. I came to this country and set about the task of raising funds to provide medical aid for my people. The ________ Airplane Company gave me this plane, in which I fly from city to city to tell people about the desperate need among my people and to ask help for their suffering.

It takes so little to help my country. The rate of exchange makes one dollar equal ten (?) in China.