BAPTISM OF FIRE
CHINESE AND MISSIONARIES
EVENTUAL JAPANESE DEFEAT f Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Feb. 6. Speaking of his visit to China, the Rev. D. N. MacDairmid, director of missions of the New Zealand Presbyterian Church, who returned by the Mariposa, said that throughout the daily fighting and bombing, the mission .hospitals were carrying on their work, which had been greatly increased. “It is safe to say that nothing has ever happened in China to so endear the missionaries to the people as this period of fighting.” Mr. MacDairmid said. “The Chinese and missionaries alike have undergone the same baptism of fire and this has drawn them very close together.” Speaking of the war, Mr. Mac Diarmid said the Chinese were confident of eventual victory, their slogan being “resistance and reconstruction." The Chinese claimed that four-fifths of the territory nominally occupied by the Japanese was still under Chinese control as Japanese control did not extend more than a few miles from the railways. The Chinese showed few signs of fear or hatred against the Japanese. They were a wonderful people, accustomed to great 101 l of life through the floods and famines of the past.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 31, 7 February 1939, Page 9
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195BAPTISM OF FIRE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 31, 7 February 1939, Page 9
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