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...weeks ago, a Jap invasion fleet from Formosa nosed up to the mouth of the Min, downstream from Foochow (see map). Assault troops swarmed ashore and drove swiftly to the suburbs of the port, whose garrison had held out in hope of welcoming an Allied invasion force. Last week a second landing was made on the south bank of the Min, catching Foochow between the two Jap columns...
...Chinese magistrate in Foochow, Chen Wenyuan was born a Buddhist. At Foochow's Anglo-Chinese College he learned about Christianity from Methodist Bishop John Gowdy,* adopted the faith, promptly converted his mother (his father was dead), several cousins. In 1917 he came to Syracuse University (he helped pay his way by teaching Chinese) later took a Ph.D. at Duke, followed by summer courses at Cambridge University, the University of Berlin. After a year of European lecturing, Dr. Chen, who had been ordained to the Methodist ministry, returned to China to be Dean of Fukien Christian College. Five years later...
...Generalissimo, as for all his countrymen, it was an hour of deep sorrow. Tzu-ch'ao* was both a scholar and an artist. To his people he personified the Chinese proverb: "Great Wisdom Looks Like Stupidity." He was born in a middle-class family at Foochow in 1862. American missionaries were his first teachers. Later, at a private college, Lin Sen acquired an old-fashioned Chinese education. Later still he went to Hawaii, then to the U.S. He was living in a single barren room in San Francisco when he joined the Kuomintang, then a secret society. When...
...Chaplain (Capt.) Raymond B. Blakney of Williamstown, Mass., who possesses one of the most varied backgrounds of any instructor at the School. A hospital and transport chaplain for twelve months during the First World War, he was subsequently for eight years professor of mathematical physics at Fukien Christian University, Foochow, China, where he taught integral and differential calculus in Chinese. Upon his return to this country, lie spent six years as minister of the Sanford (Me.) parish of the Congregational Church and nine years as minister at the Williams College Church at Williamstown...
Evacuating Foochow the Japanese declared that, having destroyed the Foochow supply route into China's interior, they need no longer pin troops there. This was nonsense. Even the Japanese must have known that they had not wiped from the minds of the coastal men the memory of tricky paths to the interior...