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Fifteen years ago Christianity in China was in flight. Missionaries, their wives, children and chattels, were pouring out of the interior of China in terrified streams, seeking safety in Shanghai. In Chungking they took refuge with foreign businessmen in a frightened huddle on the South Bank. In Chengtu they gathered on the spreading campus of West China Union University while a few friendly Chinese paced back & forth at the gates to ward off anti-Christian mobs. Of the 8,250 Protestant missionaries in China in January 1927 only 3,183 were left at their posts a year later-and most...
...vast level stretch of Chinese earth, near the city of Chengtu. 75,000 men were working. The Chinese were building an air field. There was not a piece of power-driven machinery in sight. Huge gangs of coolies pulled stone rollers that weighed seven to eight tons apiece. The first of three layers of stone had been put down for a foundation, and the stone was broken by man power: 30,000 hammers wielded by 30,000 men. The enormous field, the throng of sweating, straining workmen, were watched by a short, grey, bespectacled economist, wearing a tweed overcoat...
Nanking University, now moved some 900 miles west to Chengtu, has faced similar problems. Its organizers have taught thousands of refugee peasants to help themselves and China by training them to work portable bamboo spinning wheels, spin wool yarn for army blankets. Only outside materials the program needs are steel for spindles and aluminum for spinning forks. These come from shot-down Japanese airplanes. Thus far the supply of metal has been quite adequate...
...demonstration of national solidarity at Chengtu, China, three famed Soong sisters marched side by side through the streets in peasant hats while Chengtu stared in admiration: Mmes. H. H. Kung, wife of China's Finance Minister, Chiang Kaishek, wife of the Generalissimo, Sun Yatsen, widow of the founder of the Chinese republic...
...Gissima," as Chungkingites call them, receive hundreds of generals, diplomats, politicians, distinguished foreign journalists. Centre of resistance and focus of command, the compound is also an amusing object of gossip. No act of this remarkable pair is too trivial for discussion all over China: if he flies to Chengtu for two days' rest, it is taken to mean that the Government is moving; if she flies to Hong Kong to have her teeth fixed, it is rumored that China will borrow ?25,000,000 from Britain...