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Miss Lee Ya Ching   4   Dec. 4, 1942

an automobile. Dr. Robert McClure of the American Red Cross tells how Lin-Ai volunteered to drive a truck loaded with cholera vaccine up to the front lines, where the soldiers were threatened with an epidemic of cholera ... There were no men available, and it was a most perilous mission, for the Japanese were bombing the road to the front. Just when Lin-Ai was about to start out with the precious vaccine, Dr. McClure noticed a bandage on her shoulder, and asked her about it.

"Oh," said Lin-Ai, "that is nothing, Doctor. A little scratch." But Dr. McClure examined it, and discovered it to be a deep and dangerous shrapnel wound. He ordered Lin-Ai to the hospital. But instead she climbed onto the truck.

"No, Doctor", she said, "I am all right, and there is no one else to take this medicine to our soldiers."

And as she started up the truck and moved off, she called back: "Remember Doctor - my people...they expect a lot from us Christians."

Lin-Ai delivered that life-saving vaccine to the soldiers. The cholera epidemic was averted. But Lin-Ai died of her neglected wound soon after. But the glory of her name and her brave deed lives on in China.

[[Strikethrough]] Chinese women of all ages are part of the army of 150,000 workers now rushing [[/strikethrough]]

The women of China have used their wiles even when they were captured by the Japanese. One story out of China tells of a woman with bound feet, taken captive by a Japanese soldier, who one night strangled the officer to death with the bandages taken off her feet.

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