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Show 4. p*ingkiang s t i l l Is in Chinese hands. Mr Clarke writes that during txieir vfc ml alien occupation they were told that i f they supplied plenty of cigarettes, Milk cakes, and coffee they wld be well treated! Once,when Mr C and some pet-ty "officers were talking as they walked, the officers observed that their air-men were always very accurate in t h e i r marksman ship, end never struck with ban. bs foreign property. Just then they were passing Mr Cf s (and ears, while there) ruined-by-bom^ dwelling, and Mr C remarked abt the fate i t had suffer ed. There followed complete silence! l*ve mailed to you photos of the destruct'n there. Also, Irve mailed you9 on leaving, a photo of our entire Hosp Staff - a ix revell token to us by the Staff- ffee farewells were hard to pass thru. They were, withal, very beautiful. Such -ndce t r i b u t e s ! It has been a year greatly enricfcening our l i v e s , md, perhaps none seems to have been more f r u i t f u l . We worked in Human nearly 15 months. I t has not Iseen easy to leave. And, when I r e a l i z e that this MAY be the l a s t period with which we will labor together Tlth the splendid English Methodists, my heart i s very tender and full* HEVSR could people have been treated more considerately and more appreciatively thm has been our treatemnt at t h e i r hands these now 8 f u l l years for me and 7 for yr father, for, his flood>relief work in the Hwai FdLver fcasln kept him from joining ' at Witting t i l l a year l a t e r than my advent there* Such broadening and enriching of our lives with fellowship of the highest ha,s been our es&er-v ience among tfeem* Bo wonder God has blessed e l l t h e i r labors. We would love . to be a t Wuting now, as was planned,, but, i t i s not now to be. We are weiecra- • ed with open arms here. Much, i f not a l l of the present Red Cross ( i n t e r n a l !. organization; not Chin* Red Cross) must now leave for one oanssr and another, Yc see busy times ahead! More, anon. We ¥AMI to go to Awer with Marg next simmer, i f may be. Last night we were talking with two missy© of the Evangelic a.: (¥SA) Missn ^working in Kwei and E&men, and, they pointed but that rare i t iiot. for the Interntf i l Red Cross drugs and supplies, they wld have to^lose their Mospsc That reminds me to t e l l you that the aid the Packing Hosp rec, ;d from. t h i s organisation the past yr has amounted to §8,000! This was in drugs & supp l i e s , and in n}Q$ey~help for wounded soldiers and refugees, yr father having to supply a w¥eKtir statement to that organization as to jupt how a l l money wes> spent - in full, d e t a i l , ^: As Myxa writes about weather in Ch*eng-t» and i t s vagaries, so we hawf found i t in Hunan. After f a i r l y roasting the f i r s t half of Oct, then i t suddenl y became so cold we needed fires* I t i s so cold here we also need fires,, and" we traveled in r a in much of the tlmemjttf/i days across Kwei. On the Mt heights,,* we ever were in clouds, v i s i b i l i t y not carrying beyond 30-40 f e e t ^ / i o l e t s be? gm blooming in mid-Oct, and a l l pear trees then came into blossom, also. In Hunan and in t h i s Prov the tea trees are in fftftl bloom. - white fragrant blossoms, not unlike those of the orange tree* Persimmons were among the desired * edibles before we l e f t , and oranges once again are p l e n t i f u l , coining as e a r l yj as mid-Oct, tho, very few large ones are yet to be seen. Pomelos were s t i l l a?? a tree in our Paokg Comp. They are not so juicy there as those we found Blom i ed the word11 s a c r i f i c e " for t h e i r country. The stores here rep-ind me of those I ef Hankow - with large glass fronts, etc. " sj We rather l a t e l y learned that some of your old Ho China Amer Schl trim- ,.-• r, , , OJ , - • -- - # KfAS-er-4 tho, but our WS&B . S£^£?i:+ k r rei?ks5fr^ writes that his Roberta nnd baby,Grace, wre vi th him at. , LX: Met summer^ they having no home to which they can return, for, the a n t l - mJSSw2I§ !?erf !X! ofABntBn in Eopei, So. of Shunteh, You know 'of' ' COBgUbt • lri*A i ylAl^YhS*Y^ile. «**•«» norr'd, Sept 5 to a Mr "Jack" Green.e t*X«r. • -Jtaer Mba*,, Peking, end they lire in tW fiLfU^TOvife1 *Si*?WI |