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“...wheelbarrow? That is travel de
luxe, which no Cook’s tour can offer. We preferred not to
think of the trip back from the sunny south of China to
bleak, cold, wind-swept Chefoo in January, but even then
the two or three days of homesick misery soon gave way to
the delightful friendships of boarding school once more.
A ten year association from kindergarten to prefect-
ship, cemented by shared illicit midnight feasts, games, exams,
pranks perpetrated in lower school and detected in prefect
days, form a bond that the seven seas cannot break, and they
had to stand just that test, for at graduation we scattered to
the four corners of the earth. Wherever our parents hailed
from, were it England, Scotland, Ireland, the States, Australia
or Canada, even Sweden, France and Germany, there Chefoo-
ites returned. In post-war days the Chefoo schools saw even
one or two “White” Russian refugees, and these mixed, ap-
parently without contamination, with the daughters of the
Russian Consul, presumably “Red”. In...”
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“Chefoo.......25”, the C.S.A. Newsletter, in its dainty
silver cover, was eagerly perused by. present scholars and we take this
opportunity to send our thanks and to offer our congratulations to the
Great Britain Branch of the Chefoo Schools Association on its Silver
Jubilee. The following items of news, came to hand from other sources.
Under the title of “Holiday Adventure” “Plucky
Swim in Teeth of Squall” there recently appeared a stirring
account of Miss Gladys Evans’ rescue of a party of Japanese
from an oarless fishing boat which dragged its anchor, whilst
they were using it as a base for their bathing.
By the time that the occupants realised their predica-
ment, they were being blown out to sea, towards the rocky
coast of Hamazaki, so one of them swam back to the receding
shore to summon aid. No boats were nearer than two or
three miles, so the young student laid hold on two planks,
and at this juncture...”
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