Off-Shore

Formosa

aiwan—or Formosa—is also a ific Island, when it is not being off-shore Chinese island and part Asia. For the past century it been the mission field of \adian and other British Presby ins, and “Angel at Her Shoulder ”, Kenneth L. Wilson, is the story the island, the mission and of lan Dickson who earned her ■name of Typhoon Lil the hard L and her husband, Jim Dickson, arrived in Taiwan in 1927, n it was dominated by Japan, remained almost until the out ik of war in 1941. During the they served in British Guiana, in 1945 returned to Taipeh to that little remained of what they created and that the new masters he country could be more difficult ive with than the Japanese, s part of the surrender in Tokyo [ Taiwan, which had been ipied by the Japanese for 50

years, was returned to China whose first appointed governor was a disaster.

The Taiwanese, mostly Chinese who had lived on the island for generations, spoke a different language from their new bosses and probably would have preferred the Japanese, to whom they had adjusted, to the backward, uncouth Chinese occupying-troops.

It was among the Taiwanese, and among the aborigines— supposedly related to the Polynesians —who lived in the remote mountains, that the Dicksons worked.

In recording the effort that one five-foot-nothing American woman put into the business of providing spiritual and physical care of the afflicted, the author also has much to say about an island that remains one of the problem spots in the world.

As well as its Christian message, the book has its leavening of humour. —JT.

(Angel At Her Shoulder.

Hodder. 32/6.)