All Saints Mission Elementary School

Miss Ashcroft was a missionary in the district of Shanghai at the outbreak of the war between China and Japan. She was transferred to the Philippine Islands, to work in All Saints’ School, Bontoc. After Pearl Harbor, she was interned by the Japanese with the other Americans first in Baguio and then in Bilibid Prison, Manila. With the others in Bilibid, she was rescued by General MacArthur last spring.

Source:
Article: Deaconess for China Set Apart at Cathedral in New York
Author: Elizabeth McCracken
Publication: The Living Church
Date Published: February 3, 1946

Transcribed by Wayne Kempton (link)
Archivist and Historiographer of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, 2008