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Hsun Te
Formerly Mukden
Chefoo
One Monday morning, after he had spent about a week and a half with the Griffiths, he
received five telegrams from Lanchow, the town where he was born, asking him to come
and take charge of the field activities of the Lanchow International Earthquake Relief
Committee. One of the telegrams was from the Governor of the province.
The crisis in Hsun Te had diminished with Mr Griffith’s return to health, so only waiting long
enough to get permission from Shanghai, he made his way back to Peking by 29 April and
set about preparing for the long trip to Lanchow. By 2 May all his preparations were
complete and he was ready to leave on the 11 p.m. train. Such was the emergency that he
had not been able to make the time to return to Chefoo.
An unexpected wire from Arthur said business was bringing him to Peking that morning, so
the brothers met again and Arthur was there to see him off on the night train. He reached
Ch’eng Chow at 11 p.m. on the night of 3 May and spent the night at the YMCA where "the
Hsun Te
Formerly Mukden
Chefoo
One Monday morning, after he had spent about a week and a half with the Griffiths, he
received five telegrams from Lanchow, the town where he was born, asking him to come
and take charge of the field activities of the Lanchow International Earthquake Relief
Committee. One of the telegrams was from the Governor of the province.
The crisis in Hsun Te had diminished with Mr Griffith’s return to health, so only waiting long
enough to get permission from Shanghai, he made his way back to Peking by 29 April and
set about preparing for the long trip to Lanchow. By 2 May all his preparations were
complete and he was ready to leave on the 11 p.m. train. Such was the emergency that he
had not been able to make the time to return to Chefoo.
An unexpected wire from Arthur said business was bringing him to Peking that morning, so
the brothers met again and Arthur was there to see him off on the night train. He reached
Ch’eng Chow at 11 p.m. on the night of 3 May and spent the night at the YMCA where "the
