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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 8, No. 10 July 25, 1945

China's Plight

China's Plight

In China, medical help, food, and books are being supplied. ISS has also established "student centres" to make possible community life in those towns of Western China in which, in order to provide a trained personnel for the country's future activities, the Chinese government has replaced the universities of the occupied Eastern territory. Such a "student centre" has, for instance, been set up at Shapinga, near Chungking, and hundreds of students and professors are daily using its reading room and library; from this centre, students are being sent to war orphanages and other relief institutions to give instruction to young boys and girls—some of them the university students of the future.

Students suffering the extremes of malnutrition in Greece, Yugoslavia, and Belgium have received aid in the form of food by means of our organisation, and the Rector of Athens University himself has written a letter of warmest appreciation in acknowledgment of this particular form of student relief.

World Student Relief Headquarters are in Geneva, and it has branch offices in London, New York and Stockholm. It exists to serve in each country, when requested, the material and cultural needs of the Indigenous student groups. In order to do so, it is ready to cooperate with all bodies, official and private, which have the cause of student relief at heart; it has begun an experimental co-operation with the United—Nations' Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in connection with projected relief work in the Balkans.