The Archive · 1938

Visits to Anyang

Mrs. Evers, who had been sitting in he court the whole morning, without being interrogated, was questioned in he afternoon. She said she would save been in China for ten years in Tune next, having arrived here on Tune 15, 1928. She was born in Caliamia. Her husband died in August 1923. She had come to China on her "wu accord and she occasionally took ap teaching Chinese students, many f whom were in North China.

Referring to her visits to Amyang he said that her first visit was in May, 1937, and the second, about the st week of the same month when he had been invited by two foreign aches related with mission station here. It was during her second visit hat she told one of the ladies that he would like to stay at the Anyang mission hospital for a week or so as the hospital was in the country, Continuing, Mrs, Evers said that vhen she left Peiping and was in the rain on her third visit to Anyang, she met in the corridor, quite casually and incidentally, Chen Chia-chun. her former student, This student had with him five pieces of baggage and asked her to do him a favour by taking into her compartment two suitcases because his compart-crowded. He did not turn up at arrival at Anyang railway tation and the porters put the suitcases into her rickshaw and they were taken to the hospital. She had no idea what was in the student's baggages. in an Shields' suggestion that t Chen was engaged in nar ness, emphasized that she bad absolutely no knowledge of that. and declared that her visit to Anyang had no connection whatsoever with a meeting with this student in April "hat year. She also denied the allega-ions that her railway expenses to first-class, v tired Chinese army officer.

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