The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-01-18
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 Secretary of State Cordell Hull
 has informed the Board of Mis-
 sions of the Methodist Church that
 he has confirmed through official
 channels the cabled accounts of the recent internment of Bishop Ralph
 A. Ward, of Chicago, in Shanghai,
 He says, however, that the Rev. William B. Burke, missionary in
 Sungkiang, Kutien, and the Rev.
 Dwight L. Sheretz, of Shanghai,
 who were interned by the Japan csc at the same time as was Bishop
 Ward. have since been released and are now in Shanghai.
 Twenty four of the languages spoken on the Solomon Islands by
 the native peoples were first re-
 duced to writing by missionaries. and then some part of the Bible
 was published in those tongues. In six of the languages the entire Bible has been published: Bugotu Of Ysabel Island; the Florida Island tongue. Ulawa of Ulawa Island; and Saa, Malu and Lau dialects of Malaita Island. The Gospels and the Book of Acts have been pub lished in Vaturanga, and selections of these in Logu-both tongues used on Guadalcanal Island.
 Three hundred eighty-six Luther
 an chaplains are now in the U. S.
 Army and 54 in the U. s. Navy
 according to pr. Ralph H. Long. ex-
 ecutive secretary of the National
 Council. He adds that the 1942
 quota for Lutheran chaplains has been exceeded, and that about 15O
 more will be needed in 1943.
 | The United Council of Church
 Women, the Federal Council of the
 Churches of Chrst in America, and
 the Foreign Missions Conference of
 North America are urging upon the
 American government the exten- sion of the experiment of feeding the starving Greek people to in- olude also the feeding of the mil-
 lions of hungry and near-starving in Belgium, Norway, Poland Hol- Hand, and other democratic coun- tires. They urge their constituencies 1 and individuals to write to Direc- | tor Herbert Lehman and other off
 cials urging the sending from Am
 erica of supplies under information | al and neutral control so that it will reach the needy. The Inter national Red Cross, the Friends Service Committee. and the Swiss and Swedish governments all had a share in supervising the feeding
 of the Greek people; and the tes- timony of the American State De- partment is that this service proved a success and did not im- pede the war effort
 We are on the eve of the great est opportunity for the expansion of Christianity that we have ever known according to Ralph E. Diff fendorfer, secretary of the Board of Missions of the Methodist Church. ITO think of Christianity in the post war world in any other terms than global strategy would simply be foolish and futile. It is encouraging that, by and large, the leaders of the World mission of the church realize this. Word comes to us from every land of conferences, of research and resultant findings, of books and pamphlets, of ad- dresses, and lectures, of attempts to create and organize public opin- ion in order that the church might expand it's thinking, it's outlook, and its activities until it becomes vital force in the remaking of the world
 The British Red Cross has re- gently sent to China a hospital
 unit now stationed at Changsha with a base hospital, serving Chin
 ese troops. The unit consists of eight doctors, twelve nursing sisters, and other specialists. The unit is working in cooperation with the Chinese Red Cross and the Chin-
 ese Army Medical Service. Most of the members of the staff have been
 in China before and speak Chinese.
 The hospital has 200 beds and is well equipped with surgical appli-
 ances, dressings, medical supplies, and X-ray apparatus.
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