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This week a suave, slight Chinese Protestant prescribed the same rule for the conversion of his enormous and absorbent country. Dr. Francis Cho Min Wei knows what he is talking about. In China he is a college president-of Hua Chung College (Christian) in Wuchang. In the U.S. (this year) he is Henry W. Luce Visiting Professor of World Christianity at Union Theological Seminary. In both countries he is a recognized authority on Chinese conversion, who says of himself: "My whole study and research has been directed to discovering how to Christianize the Chinese culture...
...Chung is a Chinese refugee university. Driven from Wuchang to Kweilin by Japanese bombers, it now carries on deep in the hills of southern Yunnan Prov ince. From that inflation-blighted remote ness, a Chinese-American couple recently sent the U.S. an eye-opening report. It appears in the current Atlantic Monthly...
Typical is Hua Chung College. Japanese air raids drove it from its campus at Wuchang. Japanese planes later bombed it out of Kweilin. Salvaging what equipment they could, Hua Chung's students and faculty trekked over 800 miles west to remote Yunnan Province...
...Japanese-dominated state into a "graveyard for the Japanese." About 4,500 junks, including sailing boats, tug boats and sampans-capable of transporting 80,000 tons freight-manned by 16,000 boatmen earning 30? a day, worked feverishly to complete the evacuation of the three Wuhan cities (Hankow, Hanyang, Wuchang...
...officials at Hankow when news came that the Soviet Union and Japan had signed a truce. While the fighting with the Red Army was at its hottest fortnight ago, Japanese aviators bombed Chinese cities only halfheartedly. Last week they redoubled their bombing zeal over the triplet Wuhan cities (Hanyang, Wuchang, Hankow), killed at least 1,000 people, damaged five U. S. mission properties. With the final battle for Hankow approaching, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek removed as much factory machinery as possible and shipped it upriver with Hankow's 500,000 fleeing civilians...