FAR EAST CONDITIONS
MISSIONARIES' STORIES British Official Wireless Rec. 2 p.m. RUGBY, Oct. 11. Among nearly 900 persons repatriated on the Narkinda from the Far East, many of whom gave a description of life in Japanese-occupied China, was Mrs. A. Askhon, who. with her husband, ran a Salvation Army hostel in Canton. She said that they were allowed to carry on with their work after the Japanese occupation, but conditions were terribly poor. They lived mostly on rice, and at least 100 Chinese were dying daily. Mrs. I. Slater, who spent 14 years on missionary work in China, said *that the Japanese did not like the 'Germans. "In North China," she said, "they treated the Germans ■worse tihan ourselves, and I was aroused when a German consular official, commenting on the attitude of the Japanese toward the Germans, said that it seemed to him that they were fighting on the wrong side."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 241, 12 October 1942, Page 3
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