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BISHOP PAUL YU-PIN
VICAR APOSTOLIC OF NANKING
SPECIAL ENVOY OF THE CHINESE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT RELIEF COMMISSION
DELEGATE OF THE ASSOCIATED PHILANTROPIC SOCIETIES OF SHANGHAI
CO-FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF THE CATHOLIC WAR RELIEF ASSOCIATION IN CHINA

1514 WEBSTER STREET, N.W.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
U.S.A.

TELEPHONE, RANDOLPH 6591

May 31, 1939.

Miss Ya-ching Lee
c/o Chinese Consulate-General
201 North Wells St.
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Miss Lee:

I am very sorry that I was unable to tell you the actual cause of Miss Yen's accident in Alabama through the phone last night as it is such a long story and cannot be finished in few words. Since you have shown deep concern over this matter, I am only too willing to have this opportunity to reconstruct what actually happened, through both facts and imaginations, for your information.

The principal cause of Miss Yen's crash is that the gasoline-tank of her plane is too small as it only holds 18 gals. of gas. While she was en route to Birmingham from Mobile, she planned to have it refueled in Montgomery. As there is no airmark in the state of Alabama and the fuel in her plan ran low, she was nervous of forced-landing that she has encountered several times since her tour started, and she could not see Montgomery from the air either, although it was only 10 miles away from where the accident occurred, as she must have been flying low in order not to waste too much gas. Finally she picked out a green covered field to land and to inquire about the direction. That field when one looks from the air was certainly the best place to land, as I went up the air to look it over myself. Who knows that the grass was growing knee high at one end of the field, that dragged the plane-speed down when Miss Yen intended to take off again, therefore she was not able to clear up those small trees at the end of the field, plane struck trees, tipped over nose-down. Her face hit at the instrument board, nose and lips were cut by broken glasses. She was unconscious for few hours, but no internal injury after thorough examinations. She is out of hospital and is working too [[to]] down South and will carry on the work by automobile during the Summer.

Bishop received an official correspondence from Dr. C.C. Kung, in which he regards you two girls, you and Miss Yen, and also gives praise over your work in this country.