WOMAN MISSIONARY.
WORKED AFTER HUSBAND’S MURDER. Mrs D. F. Pike, of the China Inland Mission, who has spent many years m China as a missionary, arrived in Sydney recently. Her husband, Rev. D. F. Pike, was murdered by bandits five years ago, but Mrs Pike continued her missionary work. Until recently she was stationed in the province of IvweiChow. She said that opium smoking was rife among the Chinese, and there was hardly a family in which one member was not an addict. Mrs Pike said that,- on arrival at Brisbane, she received news that an American, a Swiss, and a Now Zealander had been captured by “reds” who were swarming down from Western China.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 284, 29 October 1934, Page 2
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115WOMAN MISSIONARY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 284, 29 October 1934, Page 2
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