Letter from Taipei

Formosa: The Shame and the Glory

In 1938, when China had been fighting for more than a year alone and unaided against the full might of the Japanese Warlords, I visited several sections of the front near Hankow. In those days the Chinese Nationalist forces marched on straw-sandalled feet and when wounded had little hope of being cared for. The Chinese Army Medical Corps and Red Cross had very few trucks, almost no ambulances, and not even quinine to prevent malaria which caused more deaths than Japanese guns.

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Formosa: The Shame and the Glory

In 1938, when China had been fighting for more than a year alone and unaided against the full might of the Japanese Warlords, I visited several sections of the front near Hankow. In those days the Chinese Nationalist forces marched on straw-sandalled feet and when wounded had little hope of being cared for. The Chinese Army Medical Corps and Red Cross had very few trucks, almost no ambulances, and not even quinine to prevent malaria which caused more deaths than Japanese guns.