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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aboard the liner President Coolidge Luther Ch'en was astounded to hear over the radio that the same liner had been sent to the bottom in mid-Pacific. The time was last December 7, the place was somewhere near Samoa, land the least concerned were the five-hundred passengers who were anxious to disprove the first of the false Japanese naval claims, Ch'en stated yesterday...
...en, who had left China secretly because of the refusal of the Japanese authorities to grant passports, had reached Manila aboard a French steamer only 10 days before the outbreak of hostilities. Embarking on the President Coolidge, Ch'en said the first news of the new war reached the boat as it approached the international date line...
...words to Chaplain Perry L. Wilcox on a crumpled sheet of his field notebook: 'Dear Chaplain-I will sincerely appreciate the case of New Testaments I spoke to you about when we met in Bataan. I have hundreds of boys begging for them each week. I am now en route to the -- corps who have suffered heavy casualties this week. They need Scriptures badly-any you don't need will find service here...
...sorts of things from him, including writing their letters home and confessing about the past. On Christmas Day, Borneman, as all other chaplains, carried as many as 1,200 greetings and cablegrams from the troops at the front to Manila, having to brave bombings and strafings en route...
...figures have been tabulated as yet on the number of students who have already given blood, because it has been done individually so far. Groups of 20 are being organized this week in the various Houses to go down to the Huntington Hospital en masse...