Foreign News: Flight of the Missionaries

The roving armies known interchangeably as Communists or bandits were sweeping all before them last week in Northern Hunan Province in the heart of China. In safe Nanking the Government squeaked a warning to the U. S. Legation to get U. S. citizens out of Hunan. Already a pair of indomitable U. S. spinsters had decided on their way out.

Hearing the approaching alarums of a Communist-bandit horde coming fast down the Yuan River, the Misses Granner and Renninger hopped into a small Chinese junk and told the boatman to make haste by sail and...

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