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“...IN MEMORIAM.
Once at the close of the Easter Holidays and
again at the close of the Summer Term a dark shadow
was cast over the Schools by bereavement. In the first
instance John Richardson, aged nine, the son of
the present C.I.M. Business Manager at Chefoo, Was
fatally injured by the explosion of a bomb, which Was
left evidently by a Chinese soldier off the Ninghai Rd.
and which John picked up and threw away. He had
been attending the Preparatory School since 1925. The
funeral, which was attended by a large number of friends,
including some of the boys and girls, took place on
Thursday, May 2nd.
News of the serious condition of affairs in Kansu
and of the danger incurred by missionaries from exposure
to the risk °f disease increased in Volume during the term.
Finally Mr. George Findlay Andrew Wired to the effect
that Mr. L. R. Rist, father of Edna, Stanley and Rus-
sell, Was suffering from typhus. The disease took its
all too customary course and death ensued on July 9th.
In God’s providence...”
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