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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 288, 31 August 1929, Page 20

Ichang, where severe fighting reported to have taken place, is one of the most notorious storm centres ot China; During the past few years tt has been the strategic point of. innumerable military intrigues, and on several occasions the city has been pillaged most thoroughly. Missionaries and other foreigners stationed at Ichang are offered little security, for there is no concession area, and apart from a diminutive guribbat or two, with the twenty or so sailors who form the crews, there is no foreign protection to look for when trouble is rife. One lady—the wife of a missionary who was away visiting outlying districts when a “mutiny” occurred—spent’a day and a night in an overturned earthenware bath-tub on the compound rubbish heap while out-of-hand soldiery strolled in and out of her home and made themselves welcome to her household effects. A few days later when she reached’ the comparative safety of Hankow, she told her friends of her adventures as though they bad really been a good joke. That is Typical of the missionaries and; their wives in China.