MISS H. KELLER
MISSION TO THE ORIENT
TOKJO, April 29
Herself, deaf and blind, Miss Helen Keller, famous American worker for the afflicted, wa° hailed as a “holy woman” when she arrived at Yokohama to-day on lir Japanese tour. Waving 'flags, thousand of school children > shouted their greetings as Miss Keller’s .ship docked. Miss Heller's eyes filled with tears as she tried to find' words to tell of her pleasure at Japan’s greeting. Touching her hand in a special manual sign language, her secretary, Miss Polly Thompson, kept Miss Keller informed of wliat was happening. Through her Miss Keller tipld journalists it was hopej that light and new life would spread further and further throughout the Orient until it rcacliecl millions now walking in the dark.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1937, Page 3
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