MISSIONARIES ESCAPE
(Rec. 1.0) CHUNGKING, May 19. The Associated Press correspondent reports that 39 British. American and Australian missionaries, with 16 children, arrived in the Paochi Shansi Province from the Honan Province in a box car after 24 days of marching to the rail station near Loyang. Most of the' party underwent severe ordeals because of the rapid Japanese progress and frequent aerial strafing of the crowded highways by the Japanese.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIV, Issue 146, 20 May 1944, Page 6
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71MISSIONARIES ESCAPE Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIV, Issue 146, 20 May 1944, Page 6
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