Realizing that, some of the bombs must have struck nearby, Mr, Kepler left the mission dugout as soon as the drone of the motors grew faint, He as met at the gate by two fri Chinese women, so covered with dust to be unrecognizable, who told him that a mission house in' which several people had taken shelter had been struck twice. Accompanied by Dr.
W. Newman and Dr. Bob Ainsley who "had also taken refuge in. the mission dugout, Mr. Kepler rushed to the scone.
Although the walls of the house were stil standing, the entire roof had collapsed and the men could hear faint ries issuing from inside the ullding, They were unable at first 10 locate the source of the ries for help, but a search soon revealed that some of the occupants had taken refuge in a part of the ecliar which hhad- not been reinforced. Dr. Kepler caught sight of a waving hand stick~ ing out of the debris which covered 2 stairway leading to this part of the basement, and the rescuers set work to pull away the bricks and plaster which were piled" in great heaps over the trapped men. Ax soon as enough of the wreckage had been cleared for the Chinese who had been caught under the stairway to move, he begat to help by handing bricks Jout of the aperture Dr. Kepter. had made. Eventually it was possible extricate the Chinese by pulling him Out feet fist.
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