CHINESE SPIRIT

Evening Star, Issue 23725, 5 November 1940, Page 6

CHINESE SPIRIT

ABSOLUTE FAITH IN VICTORY ANGLICAN SISTER’S WORK IN PEKINB [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, November 5. The spirit and grim determination of the Chinese people in the face of conditions brought about by the SinoJapanese war were praised by Sister V. A. Dawes, who has returned to New Zealand after sis years’ service in Peking with the Anglican missions. She has come to Wellington to join the staff of the Anglican City Mission. She lias seen none of the actual fighting or bombing, because Peking was handed over to the Japanese within a few days of the outbreak of hostilities, in July 1936, and since then ha* been entirely under Japanese controls “Worship is an-overworked word ” she said, “but it does describe tha feeling of the whole of Chinese people towards General Chiang Kai-shek.-They have the greatest confidence in him, and are looking to him to lead them safely but of the present trouble. British missionary work in occupied China'is being carried on under_ th*i gravest handicap, but the Chines* clergy and lay workers are continuing their missionary duties with the persistence that is a marked trait of th* Chinese character.” Miss Dawes is a native of Auckland, a trained nurse, and her missionary work in China was combined with tli* provision of medical services. Sh* takes up her duties at Wellington al most immediately.