When, in. the autumn of last year, the Fukienese rebellion threa-Jong, Gen. Chiang Kai arm" Wenchow against attack with an air base. site was selected.on he plain on the south side of the city and rolled out until flat enough for aeroplanes to ride over, although 2 good farmers lost their crops of oran which were still partly green. Some' Very. meagre compensation was) given them, with the assurances that their patvio.ism (even if cone pulsory) hed saved them from an even worre confiscation at he hands of Fukienese-Communism.
For a time, until the rebellier.
ighting planes became the daily cruthed, & Reet of bombing. and wonder and tereor of the Wenchow ese, to whom war operations fare, unlike many other parts of largely unfamiliar. Happily, replanes have rik ted, Dut it does not seem that the al field will be returned ¢o the Scott Leaves id Mrs. T. Scott, with we children, left last. inontlt for England, where they will make their home in Bristol. Mr. Scott is chairman of the Methodist Mission, Wenchow district, and for the two years and more has been a mitering this large work without tis much to his credit, in spize of this uunder-staffing, that the Church successfully entering the forth period scheme Mr. Scott took a leading in mating. The Scott family expect to return to China in the spring of 1935.
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