Chungking, Jan. 3.
A large number of villages, including Mustafa Kemal Pasha, named after the late President, have all their houses flooded with only the roofs visible. On the roofs cling the miserable survivors, hungry and thirsty, uncertain of the future, The floods are more serious than was at first thought for torrents have broken bounds and raced across the Lamanisa, Menemen and Amatya plains, cutting rail, road, telegraph and telephone communications, depolishing buildings and ruining farms.
Word has just been received here that a Norwegian missionary, Mr. P. Torjesen, of the China Inland Mission, was killed on December 13 during a Japanese air raid on Hochu, in north-west Shansi, The report came from the Shansi provincial government, which based it upon information supplied by a Chinese pastor, Mr. Jen Chi-ching, of Paoteh, south of Hochu.
The China Inland Mission here has received no confirmation direct from Shansi, but it has been informed of the death of the missionary by Mr. Arnold Vaught, connected with the American Relief Fund Committee in Chungking, who has received a telegram on the subject from Shansi.
The first train carrying survivors f the Erzincan earthquake zones arrived in Ankara on Monday night. Those on board had harrowing tales to tell of the sudden tremors, the crashing of houses, of fire and fear, and of a whole night without help food, or water while rescuers or! ganized relief.
Turkish city quarters also commented bitterly today on Soviet Russia's forgetfulness in this moment of national sorrow. Moscow has voiced neither condolences nor any desire to help, as have Britain and France, they pointed out, although the Kremlin for long has been the self-avowed friend of Ankara—
Havas, The report of the Shansi government, dated December 24, says that 34 Japanese aircraft bombed Hochu on December 13, completely demolishing a mission in the southern suburbs of the town.
A Norwegian missionary, it adds, was killed. His Chinese name was given as "Yeh Yung-ching, and his age 44.
The missionary is said to have come to China over ten years ago, and to have enjoyed the friendship and respect of the local Chinese community.
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