Persecution of Missionaries by the Canton Kuomintang Army hom Oun Ows Conntsroxoewe Siangtan, Hunan, Aug, 10.
As is go often the case, a terrible drought has followed the floods of six weeks ago. There has scarcely Leon a drop of rain since the floods. The late rice which had to be replanted after the floods is in very great need of rain and the gardens and fields are almost entirely dried There is salt famine here, No salt can get through the lines from Hankow and the North and the salt that had been stored here was washed away during the floods. A large salt godown fell in and a large pond behind the' godown is so salty that the ater is good for nothing and the people are carrying the water away and distilling it for the salt. It is reported that 16,000 bags of salt were destroyed.
There is certainly 'a difference between the Canton Kuomintang and the Hunan Kuomingtang. The Canton mon are especially antiforeign and seem to give: the Missions and missionaries as much trouble as they can, wherever they go, but the Hunan men under careful of their reputation among their own people and especially among the foreigners, whether business people or missionaries. Wherever the Southern armies have gone they have seemingly sought out the Missionary compounds and churches first. In many cases they have asked to be showed to speak in the. churches and chapels, and when the Christian preachers refused they closed up the meetings. When they were allowed to speak they have simply preached Communist:
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