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Show RADIO AND PLANES I HELP MISSIONARIES CHICAGO. Nov. S Radio phones and airplanes as aids In carrying on 'missionary work In virtually Inaccessi- ble parts of China will be used by missionaries of the Methodist Episcopal Episco-pal church, announces the committee on conservation and advance of that C hurch. This was decided upon at a meeting meet-ing of missionaries In Tzoehow. West China. Plans were announced by tho Rev James Maxon Yard, new executive ex-ecutive secretary of the centenary in China and relayed to the committee In America by the Rev. Paul Hutch-j lnson. editor of the, Chinese Advocate Advo-cate Tho delegates ai the missionary meeting could see the mountains of Tibet. it Is several weeks' journey from Shanghai and there ore no railroads rail-roads In that region The Tsechow territory lies In the heart of China's wealthiest province. Szcchuen. with j CO 000.000 inhabitants. jJ Because of the lack of transporta-tion transporta-tion facilities and inaccessibility of !H some sections, missionaries have been unable previously to reach many o' these localities. Mountainous sections and rlv.r wastes have hindered prog-IreSB prog-IreSB in many directions. The missionaries, planning work for the n t 1 years, voted for four H 'sets of wireless telephones with which to link up the widely separated main H stations, and four two-passcnRr air-planes air-planes with which to reach hitherto inaccessible sections. no SBSBSBB |