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Show SB8U luliil a^id Report of Conditions in TehcJiow, Shantung, China, (Mission Station of Hi Vaerican Board* by Albert 0. Hausska. gggjg ggg g jgj Jgj [ sow jyiro T: . JAPAHS r JOffla dig* Sver sines the Japanese took over Tehehow tlio rcrxbors of our Tehchow station have -feean try. j o x t ra; ion tc * ... , xxos, :. , oa, ot things r *°" }I "'' '-•'* ' ' -X on other ? ,f * o i l . a, ; XX Skaer;:. xxada a number of s a i l s on the Japanese Consulate and also Military X AXX,. _uart sr~, All I ,axit I J X told that passenger .traffic on "Wis Tientoin-^ukow line was not r -A a ,,rrl «,- x I i t a x * xxceo could be issued* I s could not gat word fron our Chinese workers for nonths, tort aiaily whan l e t t e r s X ,t . ; . .*cuLii UJ >'i 5 _a.kLca_j than )ve:r Ix ,: k .-or., X.x aost of t* a . fers X asperate need, not only because thay were •..'_.theut axa ioyxxmt, but they were in arj t fear of aistraatiaatit which in 3c 3 xasa <.V. t 3 cut. (akre in Ti mtsifl I t.ave | j.'JcuXiy seen s i 1 uncalled for brutal g i .il-iae at the railway station of Chinese bar «**p« M coi-lioro.) f® a l 0 o i>3San hearing about -•- ; <• - - -- At " k ly cur i r. $ a. J > XXAI X_ Y of cur schools by the • j a&ftftS ."k X (J k r o o. ' ' being X 1 t.o Tsangchow, halfway betweon Tientsin arid Til choi?. (I drove from Tehehow to Tientsin i A la our be i X il car about tat yews AX, 1*§ li stance boii oi undrod ixdf ' Hoc, It i s , no doubts a l i t t l e shorter by r a i l . ) And on January 5th. Hey p X: ,-* - . . ! T dacM*! uo rxak© an att<sapt to get through, fe had receiver .Too our American Consulate a request t© the Japanese Consulate asking for xra.k x m to t r aX * - I r >aide in Tohehow. this the Japanese omsuiat® vlsa©d, kit thai m§ not kommi by the Japanese k; l i t a r y t Iv!r. Robinaon (called Harold hereafter; and I started, expecting \ A' * kA./A.k.k.es' et i:-r; a x ] 3 V c ; rsi xed tc 3tc* tkero aca-al • >f " ^^cosoary, ' c :r Lc-ndo;? ; ioi fui M k"». Ko^ever, when wo arrived at T'v" - - k< -1 Kti f 11 'k f L ' . e x c X . X ;ctten '\\ i GhiuMi'itatalr flpl on asking i f t h l i t r a i n was going t© Tehchow. He was told | p Japoaese ear bc^s -feat i t x;ao. Well, fc_iat /a. r;c: . 30 I Xe'ied over to tho ticket office ^iers a local ini vum rx was ?,.;:,. | .AAX • \lur& anfe^offorod tc ot a t; x X f r ?. In my hasts to e;;5t back to the t r a i n before i t pullod out I A >d t< oi it i. i I J L th-en and there, iut or, th J J-J LrcL I Li^ sn4 le : „ -f | - - w e a that thear Aire for Tientji:: uid not fer fehflhowi . I r / M ', - ,nd the ran, rho evidently misunderstood :.e in the f i r s t lace, :nA J i>i ',-^ bet ion us i \ . . a pasaenger going to Tientsin to whoa we then 00id XAI.:» Then 1 hastensd back to the t r a i n (/here %rold was xxXXx. ready tc throw our ; :o off iiould we have to get t.' . I found ths 1 c i ^ o u ^ t A i ad a ticket for Tehchow and whan I asked his to l e t ne see i t , hs was also *xx; t4 tc learn k t i t viae for Tu Liou (lion, which jaa a station not far Xx " * sit sin* and a© the poor follow had to get off. By now the t r a i n s t a r tX . A X . J I Y : 1 : t *.s thought i t -'"3 '")'A r;jitc !Ho ready to return tc Tiotk , 1 'J$U 1 ' ^ A , 1 coon found out that i t was bound for Tehchowl We kept our fingers UTtftStd aau dtS . A .c brav® io ^'r^ ' ' " -' ; •' •! A " » •Japanese MiH-i y lice t . ix aie3. All w? had, of course, na.ro our Consular request a. ;7iiich :ie \yx; xere ae A.cod as nothing a® far as IX X kX r; XX 5 el-, * ^r > - • ax X. X<. '^ ' • • " -"ri ' -•" not:, and we did not look for trouble by asking for i t , and cairily aat reading, playing rttimy, and in general leaking as important aa two foreigners coulld in the face of what we |