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236 SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
HOMELESS AND HUNGRY REFUGEES
Dear Brother Rankin:—
Your reply to my cable of October 4 was received on the 9th. The Executive
Committee of the Leung Kwong Association has been functioning here
because many of its leading members have been living here as refugees. They
have asked me to act as treasurer.
On account of the enemy occupation the bulk of the church members and
workers fled to free China, losing all their property and business, many of
them becoming destitute. Not only were their homes looted and their families
outraged, but many of the houses belonging to our Christians, especially at
Tung Shaan, have been practically razed to the ground, and even the material
carried away. Those who remained during the occupation have suffered in
the same way. The mission buildings, churches, institutions, homes, have been
stripped clean, shattered by bombs, or demolished. As a consequence, our
Chinese fellow workers have been reduced to utter destitution. Even in the
old, well-established, independent churches, the few members left have been
unable to take care of their workers, or even of themselves for that matter.
Learning of the desperate condition of these workers the Executive Committee
of the Leung Kwong Association asked me to cable f or