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Show a. Of ©earif thia »%%u of affaire la irumtlhg a feed probism that aaa got to be met eomshow or other, and which Is being dlscueaoa by the cas-sittess in 9ur Study eea. Our head committee i s planning to send i l e t t e r to the man, -who is at the head of affair A in felpiag and the surrounding d i s t r i c t , t e l l i n g him the soldier condition which .-takes i t necessary for us t e care i®r a l l these people, and appealing to him to i t lewataila^ about i t . It will -probably not be aewa fco him, eat »ay s t i r hist up ta eat. la laws' always seemed that this usrestrieted preying Qi the iJOlJiera on the very people foeyara eapposei to tare for, is en© of China*a greatest ahaae*. $a hear that there are snail ietachments of Japanese ani "Ma&ehukou" soldiers billeted about for earaeeea of observation, who aru behaving just as badly if not worse I mentioned mr bcmoardiaent. My husband was in the city at Hat time and not more t&ae a hundred yards trm the place whero the most da-mage was im$* I was at the Church inside the City trying to jolly che people along eaea the f i r s t booms sounded. Th«y believed me when I told thea we were perfectly safe rhere we were, so we heard i t out together under tea tre^s, The mosque was hit twice, I think, and some houses gear i t de~ •trey e l , watte at least eigat aaefle were killed, and twenty injured. fe heard shell f i r e ^ number of times, but Tunghsiea city was shelled only snc«. That tea enouga,, however. It I s n ' t the pleaaaatest feeliag. tfee gratitude of the people for n^lug taken In w&olesals, ana having a flaws where th«y ceull rest their hearts, i s very touching. Fear i s suet a iavaatet$aj thing. The sanitation problem loomed large at f i r s t , but a ui*mLtt®& assisted by scavengers seen got ahead af the proble*u. Our deep //ell (500 feet,artesian,) that runs a small atream provsd a blessing. As a rule th® Chinese i s not drink cold -water very much, but i t was impossible far av«ryo»e to get hot water, and i t w&s n&t io&g u n t i l uearly everveaa was posting aewa to th® spring with kettles an4 pails to fat foes coJU water. The Hospital was very busy, aoiiing aeM* clinic &a UbUai forowftp&tients, etti usk-erisg babies into the world. Thert? festal ba«n, at least, eight refuge® babies b«rn,aaa mora? are Imminent* All have aerk&i together «Fleeslsly> George seas eleeteu chairman of the main committee and X think he is the only foreigner regularly starving on a committee, though we a l l stand ready te help where we can. The iawaitltteea are composed of Chinese. Th® stuientfo have given splendid ijarvic*s I:*r the meat part... the g i r l a helpimg Hiss Kao with the refugees at fu Mil (Goodrich Acad any}, mwi tee h\ Ho (Jefferson Academy) students helping at a l l the other centers. Th© Seminary men. especially, have been reliable and helpful. A number of the teacher* have ei*e earkei afcrly »nd l a t a . For the f i r st week or more Oeerge a*as a? every aorolnj between four and five te see that £he gates were properly atteaded | e . Thfs people aesjli bs«»in to nova s® early - raen *nd?t%*n coming in with food, or going eat for feed, anisoma^haap there would be a rush of new people com* lug in as bands of maraudisg soldiers visited new willa|®a. The Chinese were very muck afraid of bsd characters coming in, rowdies or communists or flain«*eiathei^e» who might try to s t i r up trouble; s$ on© evening early in the emm, they rounded up a i l of th* unattached men and assigned this to a place by themselves. Slave were not y«ry many as most of the men had their own women and children* Of course the wcteen and children we®e and s t i l l are very much l a the majority. A great many of sea men went home as soon as they found t pisee for their families. ltery iay seea more of our friends leaving us and if i t were not for the soldiers things would soon be back to normal in our compoundj except that no school wauld be going on. We trietf to k»ep a ten ci«ss«s going at f i r st but i t soon haaaa a evident that mora than a l l the room would we needed for the refugees so things just naturally had to stop. tke senior classes may take their examinations and have some kind of graduating exercises in We Kit. at least- |