The Archive · 1937

Helpless Mites Start Life Afresh

In an airy, well-lighted room ai Kriss Posin, diem, Chiang, At-joining the Community Church, in

Ling and their friends have found new paradise after the horrors of a refugee existence in wartime. They find the kindly attentions of foreign and nurses and helpers infinitely preferable to being carried around in streets where any minute a bomb or a shell may put an ench to their short lives. There are seven little refugees in this new "camp", run by the National Child Welfare Association, and their ages average only two or three months. They will soon be joined by 13 more destitute little mites, and the "camp" will then be filled to capacity.

There are just three out of the seven tiny refugees whose origins are even remotely known to the "camp" authorities, These are Jimmy, a cheery little creature of four months, whose parents were killed in the bombing of the South Station by Japanese planes. Jimmy clutches tightly to a bright rêd rabbit, and seems utterly content with his new surroundings. Then there are the "camp" twins, Ai-Ling and Mei-Ling, named after the leading ladies of the. land. Their mother was

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