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·· · Eltabli·bed 18; 4 Funeral Dirtctor· for 72 Year· WILMETTE, L ·IFE September 17, 1926 ago Is one of the outl!'tandlng mission leaders in China. Graduated from Northwestern university, he has spent seventeen years in the Orient. He is a .representative of the General Board of Missions and is supervisor of about thlrtr boys' schools, including a large ·h igh school. In addition to his educational activities he is, of course, engaged In extensive church work in his t erritory. r···················································~ C. H. JORDAN .& CO. Jordan. Funeral Service plan reduces the cost of funerala considtrably Phone Untversity 449 Wilmette Office Phone Wilmette 3 3 54 CHICAGO Phones Superior 7700-771 o '\oo E. Erie St. 612 CHAOS IN CHINA IS TOLD BY MISSIONARY Dr. C. B. Rape, Wilmette Methodist Mission Leader, Describes China in Revolution Editor's Note: The Chaotic conditions in China are graphically portrayed in the accompanying letter directed to Dr. Gilbert Stansell by Dr. C. B. Rape, official minister of the Wilmette Parish Methodist ch urch with headquarters at Chungking, West China. Dr. Rape, who visited Wilmette while on furlo ugh about a year Chungking, \Vest China ] uly 21, 1926. Dear Friend: Since I last wrote you things have been moving very fast here in Chungking. Fir st of all, we have had a complete change in government, not due to any election, ior this city of 800,000 people does not know what an election is; but du e to another revolution . Gp until the first of May General Yuen D su Ming with some twenty thousand troops from K wei Chow province, wa s in charge of Chungking city and district. Then various Szcchuen rrenerals with the help of th e SuperWar Lord, \Vu Pei Fu, combined · against him. Fighting began early in Mjly and from th e first it was evident that Yuen Dsu Ming would lose. ln spite of thi:-; he· prolonged the fight as long as he could in order to get all the money he could from the people. Let me ilbstrate. \Ve lin on the )ia Ling ri\' er t\\·o mil es a h ove the cit\· of Chungking In ·this s hort distance · General Yuen haft five customs stations. each collectinga different kind of duty, and all goods transported on the river had to pay. In ordinarY times ther e arc no customs statio-ns at all on this part of th e river. Thi s is simply a sample of the wav in which he bled the people for mo.nth s. A famih· that was fortunate enough t~ own a· pig could not kill it without paying the military a special fee. If one lived outside of the city, .1S in ·our case, and bought goods in the city he had to pay a special tax at the city gate before he could take them out. Just before he left, the Chamber of Commerce was forced to make General Yuen· a parting gift ::>f $1,500l..OOO. ~ye Witneu to Strife The fighting became very severe "'bout the middle of the month, and on Sunday, May 16, General Yuen's men began the erection of a pontoon bridge acro ss the river almost under our house which stands on the edge of a high bluff overlooking the river. This meant that we were to he in the thick of the fight. On Wednesday afternoon Yuen's men began retreating by the thousands, and I got no rest or sleep for two days because I had to be on the alert to keep busy these retreating !" olrliets from taking possession of our huildh1gs on the campus. The weather was extremely hot. (\Ve are farther south than New Orleans) and the men were tired and hungry. On \Vednesday night therr ·were thousands of these poor ch alJS sleeping on the ground on our campus. \Ve made tea for them and opened the chapel so that the officers would have a place to rest. By treating them in this way '"'e prohahlv save d our place from being looted, and made some good iriends besides. On Thursday morning about 8' o'clock tl,e final retreat began and troops carne pouring across the pontoon bridge lik e ants. They were hard pressed by the enemv and at 9 o'clock they cut the bridge · leaving hundreds of their number on the far side to be cut down by the enemy. We saw one boat load of about fortv men that was riddled with bullets froin both sides of Davis St. ~---·············································---~ The 60.-Watt Lamp Used in direct lighting units and for general utility - gives .89 candlepower oflight for 1 watt of electricity. F OR several years General Lighting Service customers of this Company have been privileged to secure 60-watt Mazda lamps without charge in exchange for burned-out lamps with glass intact. or for .original installations. 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