Mr. Roger T. Rahn, awed 28, lay delegate to the afethodist Ghurch Conference from the West China "Conference, committed suicide yesterday by taking. poison, says a telegram from Springfield, Massachusetts, of to-day's date.
The message adds: Mr. Rabn is believed to have taken poison in his room at a local hotel and his body was found today. His act is attributed to ill-health, coupled with depression from which he had st fered since arriving in this country. Mr. Rahn was a teacher at a Christian school at Chungking. Friends of Mr. Rahn, whose Chinese name is Ran Clu Dsi, said that he had thought he would die before the conference closed.
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