In alt, cases where Nationalist authorities have been in the ascendency it is authoritatively stited t Chinese Christians are per-secured when they attempt to} worship.
In some places the local authorities "take over" schools and "ran" them, It is almost impossible to speak of} the taking over or the running with-oat a liberal sprinkling of inverted commas, #0 like x had little boy's ream of attending school this pro. joes has been. Holidays exceed the wildest imaginations of the same bad bittie boy, student union meetings are given precedence to all merely scholastic duty, soldiers drill in the school.premises und the authorities issue prolific "newounts of their Successes in administration.
To carry on with " few more in-} stances, soldiers are being quartered in all properties belotiying to the Methodist Episcopal Church at Nanking, with Middle Schools—being Used as stables, All houses of this mission were looted, four of which wore burned. The same applies to} Chinkiang. In Wuho, another chief centre of the mission, schools} are closed. Kiukiang and Nenclianye show churches full of soldiers and latest reports which it is taken do not apply to the Methodist mission alone show that Nationalist circles are beginning to press the idea of} general confiscation of mission pr arties, Huge Sums in Demag:
Tt is estimated that the Wonien's Bible Training School at Nanking alone sustained - $35,000 damages, and other compilations of material damages by this mission show that about two months ago when Faockow institutions of the organization were gutted total of between $60-60,000 love wan involved.
The same conditions apply to the American Baptist Foreign. Mis Siciety. OF the 65 schools, ete. of this mission, only those in Shaohsing Hangchow ang Ningpo in Chekiang are "yunning". Otter schools under Chinere supervision all xt Sweifu, Yachow, Kiating and Chengta.
The American Church. Mission, (American Bpivcopal) at Nank ing have finished a repor losses sustained Nanking this is have been looted and five buildings belonging to. the mission croupied. Labvcr agitators Are using the church, school and residence at Woosung for headquarters as th are at Kiangwan-and Sungkiang which the military occupied. At Anking where one of the best equi ped mission hospitals in this part of Chita is situat: d, soldiers are quartered in the hospital, and seven residences have been losted thoroughly. At Kiwkinng, two churches, two bays' schools and two residences are all being occupied and from Nanchang comes the same report. At Wachang "school is beloe kept" at Boone Universtty, although fess than one-third of the stude grounds. ate there and soldiers drill on the
At Changsha buildings ste 9 the hands of the students' urian, nor docs this mission entertain any! very high hopes about property at Tehang and Shasi.
South China reports have bea filtering through with great regula: ity since the first days of Natioe alist aggressiveness, Among the ater ones is that the Canton Hos} to the Presbyterian) THE osed, owing to labor that the Kerr Mospital)
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