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NATIONALIST POLICY TO ATTACK
ALL MISSIONS.
WHERE SOUTHERN ARMIES HAVE GONE MISSION
PREMISES LOOTED,
SEVERAL HUNDREDS THUS DESPOILED.
At the present time when the question of future indsaten policies in China is being discussed by all mission offices, records are also be ing compiled by most of them re garding the extent of damage to their properties throughout China, writes Louiso B. Wilson in the Nurth China Daily Newi
the school premises and the authori ties issue prolific accounts of their successes in administration.
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To carry on with a few more in- stances, soldiers are being quarter- ed in all properties belonging to the Methodist Episcopal Church at Nanking, with Middle Schools be ing used as stables. All houses of In most cases there is no hesita- this mission were looted, four of tion on the part of foreign mission- which were burned. The same ap aries to admit that these inventories plies to Chipkiang. In Wuhu, an are being prepared with a view to other chief centre of the mission, wearing reparations. Others are schools are closed. Kiukiang and not get willing to commit them-Nanchang show churches full of sol selves as to whether this is the end diers and latest reports which is in view or pot. The former group, is taken do
the not apply to however, declare that they find in Methodist mission alone show that the present situation few pointe of Nationalist circles are beginning to comparison with past, and from the press the idea of general confisca point of view of destructive eletion of mision properties. ments, similar incidents. The pre- Bugs Suma In Damages, sent is an organized movement It is estimated that the Women's whereas in the past, should repara-Dible Training School at Nanking tions have been demanded, pay-alone sustained 835,000 damages, ments would only have been extract and when Foochow institutions of ed from Chinese communities in the the organization were gutted a total vicinity of the destroyed mission,
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an extraction which would scarcely of between 850-60,000 loss was fa have tended to cement the Christianvolved. movement in those 'communities."
▲ Contrast With The Past.
The stewards of foreign money and properties are thus beginning to trace the lines of contrast with past happenings..`.`
No honest mission worker will tell you that the eventual hope of his mission is anything other than turning over all institutions, schools, etc, to the Chinese Chris
All Up The Yangtase.
At Yangchow, three residences belonging to the mission occupied. have bees looted and fire building, Labour agitators are using the church, school and residence at Woosung for headquarters as they are at Kiangwan and Sungkiang which the military "occupied.” Al
Anking where one of the best équip Ped mission hospitals in this part-
tians. But that again' is a slightly of China is situated, soldiers are different matter from being forcibly quartered in the hospital, and ejected from residences by anti-oven residences have been looted thoroughly. At Kiukiang, two foreign soldiers, from seeing chur- ches used as stables, and modera, churches, two boys' schools and two residences are all being occupied splendidly equipped hospitals used as barracks for a Althy horde and
and from Nanchang comes the same a general disregard of law and report. order in its most lenient sense, not to mention the finer distinctions property rights...
the hands of the students union, At Changsha buildings are all in once does this mission entertain any
01M's Heavy Losses, Some of the available facts show that the China Inland Mission, ad- hering strictly in the past to £ policy of exacting no reparations, has been as hard hit as any. From Szechuan from which only scanty reports can be got at the present time, we know that centres at Lu chow have been looted, Wanhsien looted, and Paoning occupied by the military. Honan shows Yen- cheng looted; Kiangsu, three pro perties in Yangchow looted and ce cupied; Chintiang occupied and
looted.
La Kiangai province (up to April 12th) 24 stations of the CIM. had been affected.
very high honcs about property at Ichung and Sham.
The Wrecked Missions Of Fanking.
Detailed accounts of the losses sustained by the large missionary group resident in Nanking will be available in due course, as these are now being carefully prepared
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If there are any who harbour illusions that the present campaign of ruthlessness is one which will spend itself is due course, they have, only to peruse newspaper accounts during the past two years to trace the steady advance under organized direction of the campaign.
"Outrages on American Missions,". Canton Strikers Generally Anti-PO Chekinng centres of the C.IM, Foreign," Ban on Wuchow Hos East Aris have likewise bes badly used pital, Mission Assiled, Mis. Canton Insurance and 12 stations occupied. Political sion Looted in the South," "The North Opina Ana Tis. 143 buy, Labour Unions now hare headquar-Merry Game of Confiscation" atw
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Douglasen Chinese Christians Persecuted.
present time that one hesitates to Steamboat. introduce them when volumes of re Hong Kong Tuge .....$1:10 năm. In all cases where Nationalist cords pertaining to missionary Indo-Chinis (Fred) 30 authorities have been in the ascen- losses would be more to the point "dancy it is authoritatively stated The fact also, that many mission- that Chinese Christians are per-aries assume the attitude of ignor secuted when they attempt to ing the purely insterial aspects in worship.
sublimation of the ideal held br In some places, the local au- Christian evangelist cannot be said thorities "take over schools and to outweigh the obvious facts,
run"!
them. Holiday exceed the the unjustifiable losses sustained wildest imaginations, student union throughout China as the result of meetings are given precedence to the undisciplined Nationalist move scholastic duty, soldiers drill in ment.
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Our Socialists have no good to say of any friend of Britain and they are friends of her enemies. Their schemes would involve the whole country in disaster.", They have a Bill for the nationalias tion of the mines under which the miners would take all the profits and the State 'would defray any Jossen." It is not dificult to see the ruin this would lead to.
At the end of the meeting the audience sang the Nacional Anthem enthusiastically, drowning the boo ing of a small group of Communists.
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