U.S. INFORMATION SERVICE CLOSED
SHANGHAI ORDER From Our Own Correspondent
SHANGHAI, Sunday. The Communist military authori- ties in Shanghai to-day ordered the United States Information Service! in the city to close. The order was given verbally to Mr. J. W. Hender- son, acting director, who was sum- moned to the office of the Foreign Affairs Bureau, where he was told:
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As the U.S.I.S. is an institution of the American Government, with whom we have no formal diplomatic, relations, all your publicity opera- tions, including news distribution, libraries, concerts and films should cease as from to-day. This order must not be violated."
The service provided a daily news- letter of cables from leading Ameri- can news agencies as a free service' to 2,000 foreigners and 20,000 Chinese.
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