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The Evacuation Question: Why did Medical Missionaries Remain at their posts? (2008)
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Chatterton, J. (2008, April). The Evacuation Question: Why did Medical Missionaries Remain at their posts?. Paper presented at China Research Workshop, Cambridge University

Dr. Mary Redhead, a Methodist Missionary Society surgeon, in her diary entry for the evening of October 26th 1938 recorded that when the Japanese reached Hankou the city offered no resistance. Hearing detonations throughout the evening and observin... Read More about The Evacuation Question: Why did Medical Missionaries Remain at their posts?.