Fund-raising film for the Chinese Red Cross Medical Corps includes scenes of the Hong Kong Bureau's Supply and Transportation Departments, preparation and packing of medical supplies for shipping by Truck Ambulances to Changsha, evacuation of walking wounded and stretcher cases, and emergency Air Raid Hospital in Changsha established after Japanese bombing raid on 18 August 1938.

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Summary: These reels were found among the effects of the eldest son (John) of Dr Gordon Thompson (1878-1953), a Church Missionary Society medical missionary working at the Henry Lester Institute of Medical Research in Shanghai (1927-1937), and passed by the Reverend C W Earle (brother of John's widow) to the IWM via the Church Missionary Society on 16/8/1984. CWE assumed that these were filmed by Gordon Thompson, but he had left China in 1937 and become Secretary in the same year of the the British Red Cross China Section (and also of the Lord Mayor's Fund for the Relief of Distress in China). In 1937 the BRC organised and sent out a Hospital Unit of Doctors and Nurses to carry out medical relief work in Central China, especially in Changsha (Hunan Province). This film is therefore more likely to be a record made by the Unit of its activities in Hong Kong and China, for screening in Britain and China for further fund-raising purposes on behalf of the Chinese Red Cross and BRC China Section.