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Show tiAt^^AtcA^ CXA MutAA^Uj O^^IAAO^-^ ZaACO^eU. ^y*AJ7fr«»*-j /FA $ fa? %L^@cutiDUAiu^ Ghaotung, Yunnan, CHIHA. Oct 17,1937. our deax Children; ^STAAA^^- £ 7"« n MmLm , « UWi u c ¥e feared if soldiers were withdrawn from this great Prov, «f Yunnan, that bandit and a l l i e d depredations would occur. The postoffice n o t i f i e s us that the mails leaving here Sept 23 and 25 were robbed, - for Yt*n~ ?u -and that leaving there for here on the 27th were robbed when courier was 3 daye tbiB way, leaving not a vestige of mail behind* Then, yesterday, came a repetition of that story, and, we are set wondering as to how much we have t««t We FEAR that yesterday should have brought us an American mail. The P 0 s ^ s ' t h e bandits axe ooium!usiFsf turned out of the army, and, since people Hfl «end money in the mails, these robbers are out for what they can harvest ^f such me robberies of the 23rd and 25th occurred not far from Ghaotung. in the f i r s t on-, two nil.es were made by the robbers, one containing^envelopes, £ * 1 L other the l e t t e r s , some d i l a t e d beyond recognition. After totot «f robbers, the carrier brot the "remains" back to the P 0f and the emnloyees there tried to r>ut l e t t e r s into correct envelopes, and sent them on thusimqsr t i f f e d Mr May to come to P 0, for, he had therein a reg'd l e t t e r and a cheque, S K k Christmas order, the l a t t e r written by another, so chirography not the A SLf SI«7SfVe will seel The mail of the 25 th was a l l torn to b i t s , and none i S w a f ^ S that S T t t o S f e A i iM a large envelope of l e t t e r s from you in Arnflr •hf-injcr sept on to Margaret at Foochow! m F?om^the l a t t e r and from her HOSP« . Supt comes word that all Americans *rom we i a ^ d % e e B o r d e r e d t 0 l e a v e there, but, that the Hosp hopes to keen open as long as possible to do so? that women and children except the women who hav®no children, will leave? that, their s u l l i e s to complete the new Union HOSP (of Conaregktionaliste and Amer Methodists) were held m xn S-hpi as well as being embaSssed by not being able to buy drugs, etc in S-hai. And! now" we have radio word that T-hchow i s occupied by the enemy, and, WAT? Also, that the same enemy i s at the gates of Tsinani Earlier we had hea^ that £ I j i « , C^ov of Sung, f e l t so able to deal with affairs in hi s Pro v . , that k X l d n o t welcome the helo *f nationalist soldiersl Ditto, Sung. Gheh Yuan in Ho-eei Province. But, seal I By the way, the most condensed and, apparently, ae, curate news I now have i s via the daily paper from my old home in Falls City, Feb. lews from No China i s that many must winter at Peitaiho? that, to get xn to Shansi or Shantung from the Mo.would be impossibles that all missys in the i n t e r i o r of Sung w*re to be conaensp&ted in the Cap, Tsinanfu, and at Tsing-tao, and, that l a t e r theyfwere warned to leave that port city fearful of bombs; so all the more concentrating at Tsinan* that Nurses Ling and Sanderson, of wutina, unable to return to that point from PTE were helping care for wounded and others in the IMS Hospital,-the Mackenzie Kosp.*in Tientsin. Tnis affair hip caught ALL the missys away from their posts for the extremely hot season that ^ r * v a i ^ in Ho China, without winter clothing, "mo knows" Aether there will be any winter clothing, or, even homes to return to1. I t is further stated that Yunnan is* apparently, the safest Prov to now have residence in in China. However, an airplane passed oyer here just a few das a*o Our n^iffttborinc country ha^ a deep grudge against Chfeng-tu, Sze, if, i l that city i s visited by a i r - r a i d e r s , I imagine Yunnanfu could not escape, and Ghaotung would be on the direct route be/tween those two places* Wouldn11 t h i s new Hosp.3 without the city, prove a fine target for bombs? &od forbid*. I t was a great satisfaction to have word from Arthur aboard his liner for Amer. He mailed i t at Havre, France, Aug 31st, having boarded the steamer at Bremen, Germany. He was tremendously pleased with his experiences in 'Eiurope his Pleasure apparently undimmed in that he was doing dish-washing to earn his' passage to America! Grievous is i t . that he couldnr t get ijpk v i s i t with his old friend and teacher and P r i n . , for one year, at Tungchow, Mr Lund, in Benmarl' for several good reasons. Whether both boys are attending their respective medi c a l Schools, AST at Tale, and FCT at Harvard, such news has not yet reached us. There has scarcely been time for such to reach us? as yet. Mi airplane l e t t e r of Sept 13th, reached us on Oct 12th, bringing the $adnews of the deal^ from h e a r t - f a f u r e , of your f a t h e r ' s youngest brother, Henryyskek r1ust 60 yr$, His heatt was sadly iirtnaired by f i r s t , an atts.cV nf in-nnarrA t!*«R# »i|^f>*Wa-ted by a sever** p.ttaeV nf pneumonia. 1 a«t F*»b~Kar. X 2 |
