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i l page 5- nla the upper can ad a bible society presents a sound film entitled- the house of the book knox preayterian church wednesday may 3rd at 8 pm revw h n1o0re wii4- flthespeakejr cothel jbring your friends rryouf are welcome ifri- arthur ddyfoot writes another letter from china f v- ismwii the georgetown herald wednesday april 26 1950 recently a letter from rev ar thur dsytoot georgetown man who u a united church missionary la china was printed in the herald and attracted much interest among hli friends here a further letter has been received and appears be- j low mr writes his letters in muneoaraphed form andespljea are duhrlbuted tratn church head- quartsrs in toronto old town hall georgetown tuesday may 2nd 830 pm 50c and 25c dancing after the performance sponsored by club midtown fh i wj i se 1 ink heres your chance with many leagues over for this season there is plenty of bowl- ing time available at the lucky strike open bowling fvi tfwo lijeavivjerids vs- this ia ilew years kve i by the old ichlneser calendar outside the stillness la hroken occaalbnally by fireworks it is about three months since i liut wrote and yn that three- months much has happened many of you will- be wondering how we in china are getting along my last letter was finished on november 22nd while the com munist armies were drawing eraser to fowling and chungking r that day the dally boat from chungking failed to- arrive and we knew wie were cut off from the rest of the world until the communist soldiers arrived supposed that my letter might not reach you but actually the mail was still car ried by jtunner after the boats stopped apparentlyit gotthrouglt to canada on schedule for letters from some of you have mentioned receiving it after some days of continued uncertainty wc heard firing in the distance and later a few wounded soldiers- began to arrive at the hospital then there was a quiet day sunday followed by heavy firing which kept us awake most of the night then the firing stopped and the first thing we saw in the morning were disorderly groups of nationalist soldiers retreating head long toward the river our first aid and stretcher squads were got ready two groups from the hospital and one from the church starting out to enquire for woun ded after travelling a short dis tance we were ordered bsck by nationalist troops who said they were about to blow up their am munition and leave they said there were no wounded anyway we went back for breakfast with a certain dread of the next hours dsyswhlle there would be no pons and disked them up to in vestigate the result wss that over forty jntch people were brought to the hospital in the following weeks with serious and painful injuries all in all ithas literally been a qodsend for scores of people dur ing thbk period thafr there has been ttils christian hospital in- fowling and we are not without indication that the ilew auttioritteatlpreeute the work the hospital has done tuesdays 5 to 9 wednesdays 9 to 11 thursdays 5 to u fridays 930 to 11 saturdays 10 am to 11 pm still time to enter ladies singles tournament starts wednesday may 3rd trophies hidden score prizes lucky strike ciuik snack bar we are the class of 50 many among us are war veterans me with family responsi bilities not always asso ciated with the younger graduate we know that a university degree will not in itself guarantee success it must be backed up with hard work but wheth o not we have acquired a psrticular knowledge of direct interest to emplciyers in any par ticular industry we still suggest our degree is a good reference for we have at least proven ourselves to the extent of obtaining it graduates are available from all types of courses this year if you can employ a graduate or offer summer eraploy- rnrrt 1- ndejb r phone or write the executive end professionat at your near-cat- national employment service office now department of labour maiafaokuvtchmix auscnamaba ossotr avfastar or aays wnuc ukic wuwu one left in authority in the city he nationalist soldiers having fled the communists not yet arri ved about 1030 am the first of the peoples liberation army were seen coming into the city some people began running away but they shouted fyont be afraid and soon mingled happily with the people on the street we started out again with our red cross squads in the direction from which the firing had come the night before on the way we met several groups of the victorious army all of whom assured ts there were no woynded strange as this seemed it was true the firing had been all done by the nationalists to cover up there retreat this was typical of the campaign of the kuominttng rtoops during the last year of their fighting the impression made by the communist soldiers was of friend liness discipline and fairness this was a great contrast to the nation alist troops- who had been very un popular because of their unreason ableness and arrogant attitude everywhere in the country the kuomintang soldiers forced farm ers to kill pigs and chtckenr- and ive them the meat took rice and j anything they might fancy in town i ihcy were equally obnoxious the new army however announced that no communist soldier was per mitted to take so much as o nee dle or thread from the people they must ppy for whift they bought replace damage done con script no soldiers and force no lab our strike or curse or molest no one etc what is more surprising these orders were carried out as a result they quickly became pop ular with the people a lor a few doys a large number of wounded soldiers from a dls- j tancc were brought to our hospi tal they were from the one area approaching chungking where ser ious fighting hud taken place the hospital hi beds was already full yet in one afternoon 44 more woun ded arrived wo had to buy straw i mattresses and put the less serious cuhes on the floor of a nearby bull- ding for three weeks or so everyone around the hospital was extremely busy the mirslntf school suspended classes and stud- i cut nurses worked full time on the fwsrds theoperattng room was busy all day we were proud in deed of our staff here not one of whom failed to pull their full weight in the emergency the church people also volunteered to help and took up collection to defray the extra expense some of the most pitiful cases were civilian accident eases when the kuomintang soldiers decided to run away instead of fighting many of them carelessly left handgren ades bulots tc along the way to lighten their load country folk tuvj no idea of the danger ottoa w- i v i itoicliav rm pstoat alter the twewiveav w held a few days tot bible clfli- iskrsvflfr fhe churihvitere an also kbaitfln oneorihe rural churches 1 hence i have been busy althkigh most of the work has been done of course by the- ciheae pastors and wojooen evangelists andlsayo not got this finished the worlt of the church contin ue ns guaranteed- by the new gov- emmenf s policy of cellgtous free dom attendance at sunday wor ship is at least as good as before and at the weekly prayer meeting it is higher than i have seen it since coming to fowling the bible classes just held were similar to other schools held injhc past with attendance and interest as strong as ever christians are growing too in their sense of responsibility to serve their fellowmcn and the comtnunlty coming incontact with the ideals of communism challen- ges us to grow and i believe wc should be thankful for it at same time at a time like this in sincerity and hypocrisy tend to be j swept away and true christian faith deepened and strengthened in the new china the movement of the chinese church to become selfsupporting and self-govera- i ng rather tha n dependent on the missions is receiving a great impetus this development of course started long ago and it is something to be thankful for that with this new impulse the goal is now in sight missionaries in fut ure provided we are permitted to stay will be here to serve not to do administrative work foreigners are advised by the new authorities to continue their work and we have carried on as usual in our hospital and church worlc we havefounrf the new officials quite courteous at all times my impression is that both they and the people in general treat us with a new sense of equality rather than with the artificial politeness to our foreign guests which used to be common this is a welcome change of atti tude for we do not want any so cial favours we as canadians arc regarded with a more positive friendliness than mght be the case with some other nationalities which have been associated with imperialism 1 believe that canada has a special opportunity to promote icacc in this far from peaceful world by responding to the goodwill that exists in china for her neighbours across the north pacific we have been waiting hopefully for canada to recognize the chinese peoples government and hope that before thu reaches you this will already have been done it should be rea lized that the new government even though it is of a different political creed is working honestly and hard to promote the welfare of the common people and wants nothing so much as peace in which to achieve this objective in short wc arc safe well and happy and thankful to god for his mercic3 there is no difficulty get ting the things wc want to eat when we need to travel permis sion has been granted without dif ficulty our work carries on much i ho same as before cathie how seventeen months is chubby and enjoys life she is walking all over the place and keeps us hopping to keep track of her greetings from all olus sincerely yours arthur c dayfoot ps lo frtcnda who have written me cine of you refers in a recent let ter to those fearfully imjversonal circular letters of yours and i acknowledge that the other kind of letter has been sadly neglected the simple fact is that the task of replying to all your letters pleasant usit would be if t had the time has got completely out of reach they are greatly appre ciated every one of them and it has been my purpose to answer ov cry one personally but the pile of unanswered letters keeps getting deeper and decper now filling about half a suitcase and the pres sure of urgent tasks here keeps me away from it most of the time 1 can onlyank forgiveness and your further patience as we ore due for furlough this year i hope it will be papslbie to meet mony of you personally then the thames jh england is ofthe worhts muddiest river tomato jvice 3 2sc hein spaghetti x9c habitant pea soup c tvvtomato soup 219e red kljdney beans i globe choice vxbbjbbx pears stakslys isoz ttk kel apple juice 1 tso aylmer marmalades 3lc chumta pantry cookies jc laing8 marshmallows s 21c bttttersfc s7fr iltoh valley ooldrh cream corn 3 5 25c 50 niblets corn 17e grmttglaat wax beans 2 29c tomato juice xxle ussrs raacv dicedbeetskcarrots jasc heinz foods sr hew lwb8 btsaihed peas sod ba0ok arables wtchjuth thxkts so advahoe of pbi0b os carrolls dandee domestic shortening 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