The Archive · 1941

Bus Provides Light

The Central China University, Dr

Smith related, had obtained permission to instal itself in an old Buddhist Temple in Hsichow and that they obtained lighting by using the body of a bus as a power house and the engine to generate electricity, Dr, Smith said he felt that religious work had made great progress during the past two years, particularly the English Methodist Church, and he said that there were many positions to be filled in West China, for those people who could rough it, Also Dr, Smith mentioned the difficulties of transportation and the menace of air raids, He laid stress on the remarkable courage and faith of the Chinese people. "The men who drive the trucks along the Burma Road," he said, *are just as much soldiers as those men in the fighting lines."

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