Evening star., 1942-08-31
Six Missionaries,
Home From Japan,
Register for Draft
Repotrioted Citizens,
Returned on GripshoIm,
Tell Of Internment

Six names were added to Uncle
Sans selective service lists to-day
belatedly because of an earlier
commitment in the Far East.
At the draft board office of the
Silver Spring section of Takoma
Park, Md. six repatriated Chinese
missionaries took the initial step
to make themselves available for
the Nations war effort.
Their earlier commitment" was
internment by the japanese from
month after the attack on Hong
Kong, December 8, until their de-
parture aboard the diplomatic ex-
change ship, Gripsholm, June %.
Incarceration in notorious STAN
ley Prison was the lot of all but one
of the missionaries.
The sixth, Charles E. Winter, 80.
because he could drive an ambu-
lance, was given more or less the
freedom of Hong Kong and today
recounted the only "atrocity story
Of their experiences.
Chinese Shot in Cold Blood.
Mr.. Winter, native of Colorado
Springs, Colo. related that he saw
a Japanese soldier, incensed at a
Chinese coolie, lead the man to the
end of a pier, shoot him in cold
blood and then kick his body into
the water.
Mr.. Winter, Cameron A. Carter
and C. c. Krohn. all affiliated with
the China Training Institute at
Kowloon. which is sponsored by
| the Seventh Day Adventist General
Conference, Takoma Park, agreed
that in general Americans were
spared mistreatment.
Mr.. Carter, who was president
of the school. said that the Japs,
despite their Asia-for- the -Asiatics
preachments," heaped abuse on the
Chinese. Next in the hatred of the
invaders. according to Mr.. Carter
were the British, because they were
more IN numbers and feeling against
them was greater"
Lack of proper food and living
quarters far from hygienic facilities
were the real privations for th6
Americans, Mr.. Carter said.
The school head, who spent &c
years In the Far East, lost 20 pounds
during the ordeal. Mr.. Krohn, the
schools business manager and agri-
culturist, dropped 50 pounds, Will.
Mr.. Winters weight loss was much
less.
| Mfssinn Wa~ Uont>I
Mr.. Carter, man of 48, was Just
recovering from malaria when the
war broke out. His Imprisonment,
brought him beri-beri, an illness
suffered by dozens in the prison,
he said.
The war has temporarily endet
their work in China and when the,
last saw it their missionary com
pound had been riddled with shrap
mel and overrun by looters, Mr.. Car
ter said. However, it will all ent
some day and then We'll go back,
he added.
Mr.. Carter, his wife, and daugh
ter, Lenora Mae, Is, are staying a
the home of Mrs. Carter's parents
Mr.. and Mrs. T. E. Bowen, Is Syca
more avenue, Takoma Park.
/ Mr.. Winter is. remaining at tn
Washington Sanitarium, Takom.
Park, awaiting his transfer to
teaching assignment at Chatta
nooga, Tenn, while Mr.. Krohn plan
to join his family in Eau Claire
Wis, shortly. Mr.. Winter spen
three years in the mission fields ant
Mr.. Krohn six.
Registering with these three mel
today were A. L. Ham, H. H. Mors
and G. j. Mcintyre, who served il
the Far East for other conference
of the Seventh Day Adventists
They plan to continue on to NORTH
Carolina after short rest at pri
vate homes selected for them by tn
local foundation of their faith.