At last the tug brought Dr. Reed to the wharf, whence he made the Journey to Haichow by car. After arrangements had been made and all was ready for the trip back to Lien= yun, while a group of Chinese Teaders and "two American" missionaries were having a prayer mectug on the MeLauchlin front porch, things began to hum, Twelve Japa-hose aeroplanes were sighted coming over the City and later twelve more appeared.
For some days Japanese} planes had been coming over Haichow almost daily, usually in pairs, and ordinarily flying over only once or twice and then disappearing the distance, This time the planes zoomed back and forth for about an hour. Machine-gun fre was cessant, but It wee not easy to te whether it was partly from the planes and partly from the Chinese road was travelled by-two Americans fon their way to the port for embark ation. Another bomb "apparent. ly knocked to smithereens a small house near the gate of this same military camp. So far as could be seen these three bombs accomplished nothing of military value, Anxious Moments A party of American missionaries who were coming from Tsingkiangpu by way of Yuinho and the Lunghai Rollway, were held up at Peitspu a small station about fifteen miles west of Haichow and about 45 miles from Lienyun, because of the raids of the Japanes¢ planes. This group spent Several anxious hours on their Stationary train while the raiding planes flew over them going back China Sends Silver to
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