I heard last week that he is able to take part in the physical drill which Mr. Helps has instituted for the boys at Han-ch‘uan, where he lives.
1913, W. H. Jefferys, James Addison Ingle (Yin Teh-sen)[2], Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, →OCLC, page 170:
So much for the buildings. Now as to the workers and methods of work. I have at present only two evangelists engaged in evangelistic work-one working in Hsin Tʻi and one in Han-chʻuan with Rev. Mr. Nieh. The others have all been dropped or put to school-teaching, and two are dead.
Four yeas later the same committee estimated that during the Yangtze flood of 1935 some 73,000,000 mou of agricultural land were submerged and 14,000,000 people dislodged from their homes. There were no detailed reports on the actual loss of life, but Han-ch'uan county in Hupei was caught entirely unprepared and saw 220,000 of its entire population of 290,000 carried away by the waves.
