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Show At the end of 1939, Lintsing Memorial Hospital is very happy to be able to report a full year of service given. The Hospital has not had to close its doors as so many British Hospitals in North China have had to do during the year due to Anti-British propaganda. One or two of these have been able to reopen recently, but most of the work of our British colleagues, medical, educational, and evangelistic, has had to be discontinued; in one case they being forced to sell their property to the Japanese. This Hospital (Lintsing) has had its times of danger, strain, and threatened trouble but has won thru them all by the Father's good grace. The year 1939 began with the Chinese in control of Lintsing but on February third, as the Japanese forces again approached the City, the Chinese authorities retreated and the morning of the fourth, the Japanese came in trucks, in tanks, in cavalry ranks, and on foot (infantry) and quietly took over the City for the third time. There were no aeroplanes, no bombings, no artillery firing, so neither the City nor - 2 - |