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Former Pulaskian Reveals War Ravages Lefl By Troops In Letter To Local Citizen.to the country we decided it was time for us u go. Wc all sat on tho side of a canal from 7 until 10 . o'clock nt night hailing every boat | j that passed. Kveryone going toward Shanghai was loaded with soldiers, everyone going the other way was crowded as Ions as onecould get on with wounded sol-A recent letter from Mrs. Kate Carper Johnson, former Pulaskian.1 ^fYn occasional| now a missionary to China, to Mrs. Lewis Smith will ho of interest groan. Finally wc got a smalt to local citizens. The letter reads®------------I boat. the. kind usually usod form part:We couldn’t believe that there could be another war in less than five years that would destroy half of Shanghai. But it haa happened and the other one wasn't a circumstance to thi3.We moved into our new housebehind our church. Word came I f,f!Rht w,th *»vvtmats overhead that they had hombed a hospital ;*nd °» vc,v |ow; A.ll nightbetween us and Shanghai and that 'K tho bMlsbombing hospitals was part of drcds of wounded and dying sol-their program. There was a great I diem. We got to Soochow the next scare among the doctors, nurses morning about Wc found theand patients and so they decided ity feverish wiih military activ-to close out in Kunshan and move ity and nearly all the missionariesAugust 'J, the trains stopped run- 'back toward Soochow. By this [gone except the doctors and nurs-ning o:i August 12 and fighting I time the military folks hid put |C». In fact the American consulstarted in Shanghai the next day. up a military radio station in the had ordered them out. After two When the trains stopped of course jieaih orchard across the wall (days wo went on to Moknnshnn.our mail stopped. By way of from our house. They had already As soon as we. were settled Mr.radio on August 14 wc got the bombed at them but missed them. Johnson returned to Soochow andmessage from the American consul : After that we spent half oir time worked with Dr. Young in his hos-advising us to leave Kunshan and [in the cisterns to dlt;w1ge bombs. ,mt«!. We spent three weeks in go bacx up country, not to come ! finally when the hospital closed Mokanahan and then were advisedto Shanghai. The next day there 'and our pastor's family had moved by the consul that we had best re-an awful typhoon ardwctyphoon a By Monday wc de-d 'wascouldn’t leave, cided to stay and work as long as we could and then go. Mr. Johnson with others signed i:p lor work in iiic hospital, while 1 helped the women with making hospital clothes for the wounded. Much to our confusion and the Chinese ladies’ amusement we sewed the first four pairs of pants we made, u;i aide down. Many of the soldiers would be in the hospital for (lava without a change of clothes. They would beg for a chongc. We couldn’t sew fast enough to keep up with them. Wo also furnished icc and ' ice caps for some patients with very high fever. Our ice box was j the only source of ice in Kunshan. ;“While we were doing all this [ the war was growing worse anil worse The airplanes came daily, some times three, eight and ten times n day. One div there were 127 at once. Thev dropped l«nbs ; a mile below us at a railroad bridge. We watched from our atV c window, one morning seeing ten bombs at one time. Then they dropped them at a railroad bridge back the other wav. Mr. Johnson ami I were watching, this tiir.c I there were seven bombs. Then 1 they canic closer and closer, the railroad station, then two blocks from our house and then a block
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Pulaski Southwest Times
Pulaski, Virginia, US
Sun, Mar 13, 1938
Page 4
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