New Britain herald., 1926-01-30
Missionary From New Britain Writes of Dead
 and Wounded in Streets of Chinese City

take to 1t just as if they remembered the place. It was especially good to feel that we were 10 settle down for a considerable period, and that our travels were over for the present.
 Missionaries Are Welcome
 Making up lost sleep. unpacking and receiving callers filled the day and In tho evening big reception ara welcome meeting was held at Porter Middle school. The warmth and zost of the welcome has certain- ly been unusual; no trace of luke Warmncss toward missionaries here. If there had ever been a doubt as 10 whether we have host of friends among the Chinese here. it would be quito dispclled by the genuineness of the welcome they have given on our return.
 Our home seems about as we loft it: inc residence compound and the campus of Porter Middle school arc much less barren than when we left. for in this year and a half the trees and hedges have grown nicely. ThIs is an improvement for which we arc glad New brick walks make a dis tinct improvement In the rosidenc" compound. At the school one new dormitory has been built, and scver- al minor improvements made. In spite of the student strike and the agitation last spring, the school has opened this fall with the largest en- rolmcnt in its history. the place is over crowded and we must have more buildings before we can grow.
 Jeans Illness
 One would think that Jean had had her share During our furlo in one brief year she had whooping cough, bronchial rneumo onia. tonsils and adenoids removed. measles. in tcstinal toXema, scarlet fever, and 2 second slight case of bronchial pneumonia. She seemed 10 have re- covered nicely from all. In July while she was at the seashorc she raincd so remarkably that we were
 urned aside from having her cx- mined further by a specialist in 'hildrcns diseases. On the boat 'oming 10 China sho seemed 10 be aiming. But shortly after we got Nack to Techow she complained that her back hurt. Dr. and Mrs. Tucker md one outside doctor examined her. and they agreed that she had tuhcrcular infection, in the left lung and in one or more vcrtebrae in the Small" of the back. We had expected to take her to Tsinanfu for an x ray examination, but with the train service disrupted on account of military movements We shall wait before doing that. But treatment has begun. living out on the porch. sun- shine, rest, and all the nourishing food that she will eat. She must lie perfectly still on her back, with q pad underneath the affected part. It is too early to tell how long the treatment must be continued, but there is good reason to expect that she will in time recover from the disease. and may once again be strong and healthy. It will be a long trying winter for her and for those who must give her constant care; and yet we are perhaps better situ- ated here 10 give her the required care than we would be If we were in the States. Certainly we have much more sunshine here, with rarely q cloudy day. Jean is q good patient. tho 1t requires ingenuity 10 keep her hands and her mind occu- pied with things she can do while lying flat,
 \ Taste of War at Tcchow
 Eight days of fighting. dead and wounded lying about waiting to be cared for, the city changing hands twice, footing. and most of the oth- CT accompanimcnts of Chinese war fare it has been our lot to witness in this taste of warfare which !Tcchow has just experienced.
 This is of course just one "inci- dent" in tho progress of the present warfare in Central and North China The whole thing began just few days after we landed in Shanghai on October 11th: actual fighting reached ns hero (6S0 miles north of ShanghaN on December 7th. shall not attempt at this time to give an account of the whole campaign (thcre has been more or less serious fighting at perhaps dozen places) hut shall merely report some of the happenings In tEjs particular battle ! area.
 Techow is a division point on the railway running from the Yangte7 river to Tientsin. It is a city Of about 10000. A government Arsenal ;, tr trt A