The Archive · 1926

THE COMMUNIST IN PUCHI

Soviet Influence Alleged in Acts of Desecration: Missionaries' Predicament Some interesting facts regarding the predicament in which the missionaries in the districts where ths Rovolutionary Army has gained control, have recently been brought! to Shanghai. A missionary who jeame to Shanghai two or three days ago from the Puchi district, midway between Changsha and Wuchang, reports that it "took him seven days to negotiate a distance of 50 miles before arriving in Wuchang. He was in constant danger from the marauding soldiery and had to make long detours by sampan, along the small canals and reeks, op by any' other avail means, and bad several times to disguise himself in order to evade! the soldiers,

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