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livestock, transportation, communication, medical supplies --
in short, everything. It would be difficult to exaggerate the
acuteness of these shortages although the point will not be la-
bored. Wether there remain in the country which has been liv-
ing on its capital to the extent of Jugoslavia enough human and 
material resources to carry them through  another winter of war,
is a matter on which the writer hesitates to venture an opinion, 
but which constitutes at the very least a real and not easily 
answered question.
 
               C. MEDICAL SITUATION AS IT AFFECTS
             PARTISAN AND ENEMY MILITARY OPERATIONS
                                
        [This and the other technical medical information con-
tained in this section of the report are derived from the 
experiences over ten months of two competent British medical 
officers who talked to me at length. Additional information was 
derived from my personal hospital inspection and considerable 
conversation that I had with some of the Partisan medical chiefs 
and other doctors.]
     Medical conditions in Partisan territory could scarcely be
worse. There is literally nothing we consider indispensable to
the maintenance of minimum medical standards which the Partisans 
do not lack. There were at the outbreak of hostilities in Jugoslavia 
about 8,000 doctors of all kinds. Many of these doctors were killed, 
captured, impressed into enemy military service, or left to carry on 
what civilian practice they could in enemy-occu-