Peking, Nov. 7
With regard to a report that American missionaries had been driven from Liuyang, further details show that in many places ini Hunan the Farmers, Labourers and Stu ents' Unions' strove hard' to make Christian work impossible, At one out-station they occupied a school and threw the furniture into the street.
'The students st Livyang, under Kuomintang influence, demanded that religious teaching' must cense; that the Vice-Principal must. be dismissed, and that no new tencher must be engaged and no student expelled without the consent of the Students' Union.
When these demands were refused the missionaries were threatened with personal violence and forced to leave for Ct their way a mob inti boatmen and the missionaries had ito abandon the boat and their baggage and proceed overland.
The part consisted of six Americans, two men and four women—Reuter, Helped out by horseload of gifts, an entrance to Tengtsuen was obtained and interviews with the chiefs, They, however, were keen on gaining some munitions at least, and after two days of parley' the messenger felt that further de Jay was useless, and so with veluctange he left the place and embarked on his bent to return to Yen= cheng.
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