In Nanking: New Orders Announced for Evacuation In a message from Nanking dated yesterday, the Kuo Min Nowa Agency saysi—Complete evacuation of all pri-vote premises including resid. ences, mission property, churches and schools, within 10 days is ordered by the Military Council in an order to the offices of the various Armies established at the Capital. Any military officer ignoring the order will render himself liable to dismissal, the order concludes It will be interesting to see when ther this order proves more effective than previous' assurances of similar tenour.
The July Promise On July 27 last "a leading Foreign, Office. Official" in Nanking, in an interview with Reuter's representative, said that in consequence of Dr. C. T. Wang's efforts "more than ixty per cent, of the occupied buildings have been evacuated, The balance will be returned to the owners shortly,'
For all practical purposes. this statement was quite untrue, Simultaneously with its publication we received news that the premises of the Catholic Mission in Nanking had Just been reoccupied by troops for the third time in July. We believe some buildings were evacuated, but as fast as the troops went out, they others came in again, The right ful owners did not regain possession, The official just quoted told Reuter's correspondent that one diiculty was that many of the troops "had received no pay for several months and. there was no alternative accommodation for them, Has it been found now and have they been paid?
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