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MtSSIONARY TELLS I |)F JAP BOMBINGSMyrtle Bailey Relates Experiences m Attack on Hong KongHong Kong thought It was prepared but it was caught off Snard/ MUs Myrtle Bailey told KtAseembtr of Ood. 406 East Sandusky street, Sunday even-^fiis» B*tl»yl*» «P»n» 5?sr*missionary in China and lived tA Hong Kong during the Jap-sue*# bombings,«Tha Japanese crept in from the back, camouflaged by weeds and grass. They were In front of Hong Kong before the British saw them move,1' Miss Bailey Mid. On the ferry, one British soldier told her that the Japs outnumbered the AUies at Hong gwim 20 to 1. .~flie attack was sudden” the. ___-j »r vo, ihaIlav Attain rr .neakti* continued. First the timbers set Are to the air-ironies then they stormed ware-mm where Jfif*uppiy was stored. The Allies Sukfdo nothing except retreat o Hong Kong island/’ she said.Most of the damage Was done n the tenement districts. Most t the government buildings and tig banks were saved, she ex-^Mtuf Bailey said that she lived n the mainland at the very edge d Hong Kong's foreign settle-nnt next to the Chinese sec-ion. The Japanese took themum opposite hers for Rau3roae headquarters. Three oth-N*t near here were taken for jtmcks. One Jap officer lived m the second floor of her home. “They Just took what they wanted/ Miss Bailey said.The speaker said she wasnever interned in a camp butwas virtually a prisoner in her awn home for seven and one ball months. She had almost given up hope when word came that she could leave.While in Chiba, Miss Bailey established two missions, two schools, a boys' and a girls , opened a Bible school and kept 15 orphans in her home.A Ked Cross shipment of staple foodstuffs was used to aid Hong Kong. Miss Bailey said She had eight large bags in her home when the bombihgs came. Fifty-five people were in her home during the bombings.“I know what starvation is, : Mlsa Bailey said. “The older girls knitted for the Japs, to get Sod, and the younger girls sold candy and cakes on the streets. Wa sold our furniture every-thing, even to the typewriter/’Finally word came through a Med Cross representative that she could leave, but could take #nly four suitcases with her. She was on the Japanese ship Asama Maru until she reached Lou-renco Marques. There the Grips-holm picked up the refugees and brought them to New York. There were from 600 to 700 mis skmaries on the ship, she said.c
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Findlay Republican Courier
Findlay, Ohio, US
Mon, Sep 21, 1942
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