Realizing that some of the bombs e struck nearby, Mr. Kepler eft the mission dugout as soon as the f the motors grew faint. He at the gate by two frightened 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 truck twice, Accompanied by Dr. F. W. Newman and Dr. Bob Ainsley who had also taken refuge in the mission dugout, Mr. Kepler rushed to ihe walls of the house ill standing, the entire root apsed and the men could hear ssuing from inside the ney were unable a the source of the cri t a search soon rev ome of the occupants had taken rein a part of the cellar which d not been reinforced. Dr. Kepler lit sight of a waving hand stick-
4 out of the debris which covered airway leading to this part of the basement, and the rescuers set to work to pull the bricks and plaster which were piled in great heaps over the trapped men. As soon ax anous the wreckage had been cleared for the Chinese who had been caught under the stairway to move, he began to help by handing bricks out of the aperture Dr. Kepler had made. Eventually it was possible to extricate the Chinese by pulling him out feet first.
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