Word: changteh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago Daily News's dependable Archibald T. Steele told what had happened to a Canadian. While Canadian Missionary Minnie Shipley lay dying of typhus in a Canadian mission hospital in Changteh (Hunan), demonstrators drove away Chinese employes of the hospital, isolated the building until the patient died...
...week citing incidents which helped explain this terrific casualty. Like the ostrich, the Chinese believes that if he cannot see his attacker, he is safe. When Changsha was bombed, citizens rushed under trees and dived into bushes, murmuring thanks for their safety. Best example of Chinese ARP came from Changteh, 100 miles north of Changsha. There police systematically shot every dog they could find because the city's elders decided that their barking attracted Japanese bombing planes...
Hearing the approaching alarums of a Communist-bandit horde coming fast down the Yuan River, the Misses Granner and Renninger hopped into a small Chinese junk and told the boatman to make haste by sail and oar for the city of Changteh. As the square-bowed, flat-bottomed boat slithered downstream, the army's hubbub crept up behind. The junk was lolloping along 20 miles short of Changteh when it was overhauled and seized by the bandits...
...nearby town of Taoyuan. Twice hooves and boots clattered over-head in numbers, for the army had commandeered the junk as part of a pontoon bridge across the Yuan. On the sixth day the Communist-bandits left and last week the two indomitable spinsters sailed on into Changteh, praising their secretive boatman...
...Even Changteh was not safe enough to offer U. S. missionaries more than a place to catch their breath last week. Fleeing on by junk. 36 pious folk suddenly became aware that acute pangs of childbirth were troubling Mrs. J. E. Graham of Carbondale, Pa. and Mrs. W. N. Wagner of Waterford. Mich. Jounced by the waters beyond endurance, they presented such a spectacle of woe that even with bandits hot on the junks trail there was nothing to do but pull ashore. In a rude Chinese peasant hut Missionary Doctor George Totell of Chicago performed the hasty, almost simultaneous...