Some anxiety is being occasioned by the continued absence of verns frum missionaries in Shensi and Sueos:. has about thirty ies at various stations there, now over " month since cerns was received from them. Some time ago 8 message reporting "all well" come through from Huailab, but outbiog has been heard since. Attempts iisve been made to get letters through by the help of Dr. Wa Ting-fang, but it is not knowe whether these have been deli Telegrapbiog has been impossible. It was thought that special messengers would have been sect through in sri emergency, bat this course does not seem to have been taken, It is reported that every city in Shansi is closed.
The latest news from Shsntang, through the Presbytorien. and. Baptist w missions there, is that prevsiliog conditions are normal. The abseacs of om the missionaries in Kacsa is possibly dae to the holding of the Tangwan pass by troops. The report that a number have been forced to fly from Sinanfa has not been confirmed.
Tt messengers hed been sent out they should have arrived before now. There from Anking that the) A ave left, and that the city is practically empty and given over to
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