Dr. and Mrs. Beauchamp Safely in Suchow After Hardship and Dangers of Gobi Trip Shanghai, May 22.
A story of almost iner hip, tolling over the Gol almost to their goal, only to be turned back, is contained in a full fand modest account of their journey just received from Dr. Ivor Beauchamp and. Mrs. Beauchamp, now living in Suchow, N. W. Kansu, Dr. Beauchamp' was endeavouring jrumehi to take the place of the late Dr. E. Fischbach who died during the troubles in the Tocality. about one year ago. Dr. Pischbacher, it will be recalled, literally worked himself to death caring for the wounded and ill in that mote interior station of the China Trland "Mission. Dr. Beauchamp, who still hopes to get through to Urumehl and carry on the work, ig. gon of Sit Montague Beauchamp, Bart, one of the famous Cambridge Seven. He will succeed to the title fon the death of his father and yet, with his young bride, has chosen to seek service in one of the remotest arts of China.
Starting from Kweichow, on the Jong trek to their destination, on December 12 of last year, Christmas found the young couple' a bare 60 miles northward and living in a Mongolian encampment while awaiting the five trucks which were to transport "them. The trucks finally a rived on February 2, and the party Sand, lack of water srous ice on the rivers: added to the hardships of the long esert trip and gave back-breaking work to the caravan. They were eh proceed without molestation, pect however, until within a few miles of Hami and the end of the great Gobi Desert. which to continue the journey to Suchow. News came, however, that the military were taking two cars there and they were given room by the colonel for their Ibagenge and themselves. The account "So once again we hastened back to our quarters, where we found the fears in charge' of soldiers almost ready to start. We had a little ditljeulty in convincing them that they must wait and load our baggage, but the assurance that it was the colonel's orders finally prevailed, and again packed up at top speed and threw Jour things in. Better than our best expectations, "my wife got a seat in front, instead of riding on top, and although. she was only allowed keep it for the first half of the journey, yet oven one day's respite from the continued dust storm was worth, while
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