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“THREE SCORE YEARS AND TEN” MISSIONARY WORK IN CHINA
Amy Moore
645 Euclid Avenue,
San Francisco Ca 94118
September 11th, 1971
My dear Gladys & Leslie & Family,
Thank you so very much for your letters dated August 24th and September 9th and the
newspaper notice covering your late beloved father.
At times like this, words seem to be such futile empty things, so powerless to express
thoughts a message like this brings. However the whole Doodha family wish to say:
We do not lose the ones we love
They only go before
Where there is everlasting life
Where sorrow is no more.
And there the Soul will always live
And Peace is everywhere
We do not lose the ones we love,
God takes them in His care. Amen.
I am enclosing a small check in remembrance of your dear Dad which please use for
anything you think best to express our love for a great man.
Yes, I do remember your Dad used to admonish me by telling me to throw all unnecessary
papers away. I have an album full of all the experiences Findlay and I and our co-workers did for
the League of Nations (under Sir John Hope-Simpson). I am surprised that he did not mention
about our efforts in effecting the release of Capt. Baker with the assistance of the USS Panay
(and very much against the action by the British Consul at Hankow) for two British subjects to
rescue a Yankee! Did you know that prior to the rescue of Captain Baker we also negotiated for
the release of an R.C. priest by the name of Father Sands from the Commies under General Ho
Lung? That was quite an eventful adventure because your Dad and I were under constant watch
by Ho Lungs men in Hankow and we received threats and demands for ransom money (a la cloak
and dagger style!). I took a very nice picture of the USS Panay which I sold to Life Magazine
after the ship was sunk by the Japs. We had loads of help from the U.S. Consul, General Adam,
and also Consul Edmund Chibb, etc., when we were negotiating for the release of Captain Baker.
Edmund was forced to resign from our Foreign Service at a time when the late Senator McCarthy
was probing into the red infiltration into the Government. You probably know Jack Service who
was also fired, but later reinstated. I saw Jack in Washington DC in 1950 when I was posted there
for a year, during the time when Jack was being tried. He was reinstated and cleared later and I
believe was Consul at Calcutta. He has retired and is residing somewhere in this area but I have
not been able to obtain his address. During our recent vacation up near Oregan, I learned that
Jack gave a lecture on his experiences with Mao and Chow-En-Lai during the was years in
Chungking and Yunnan.
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Amy Moore
645 Euclid Avenue,
San Francisco Ca 94118
September 11th, 1971
My dear Gladys & Leslie & Family,
Thank you so very much for your letters dated August 24th and September 9th and the
newspaper notice covering your late beloved father.
At times like this, words seem to be such futile empty things, so powerless to express
thoughts a message like this brings. However the whole Doodha family wish to say:
We do not lose the ones we love
They only go before
Where there is everlasting life
Where sorrow is no more.
And there the Soul will always live
And Peace is everywhere
We do not lose the ones we love,
God takes them in His care. Amen.
I am enclosing a small check in remembrance of your dear Dad which please use for
anything you think best to express our love for a great man.
Yes, I do remember your Dad used to admonish me by telling me to throw all unnecessary
papers away. I have an album full of all the experiences Findlay and I and our co-workers did for
the League of Nations (under Sir John Hope-Simpson). I am surprised that he did not mention
about our efforts in effecting the release of Capt. Baker with the assistance of the USS Panay
(and very much against the action by the British Consul at Hankow) for two British subjects to
rescue a Yankee! Did you know that prior to the rescue of Captain Baker we also negotiated for
the release of an R.C. priest by the name of Father Sands from the Commies under General Ho
Lung? That was quite an eventful adventure because your Dad and I were under constant watch
by Ho Lungs men in Hankow and we received threats and demands for ransom money (a la cloak
and dagger style!). I took a very nice picture of the USS Panay which I sold to Life Magazine
after the ship was sunk by the Japs. We had loads of help from the U.S. Consul, General Adam,
and also Consul Edmund Chibb, etc., when we were negotiating for the release of Captain Baker.
Edmund was forced to resign from our Foreign Service at a time when the late Senator McCarthy
was probing into the red infiltration into the Government. You probably know Jack Service who
was also fired, but later reinstated. I saw Jack in Washington DC in 1950 when I was posted there
for a year, during the time when Jack was being tried. He was reinstated and cleared later and I
believe was Consul at Calcutta. He has retired and is residing somewhere in this area but I have
not been able to obtain his address. During our recent vacation up near Oregan, I learned that
Jack gave a lecture on his experiences with Mao and Chow-En-Lai during the was years in
Chungking and Yunnan.
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