Tsingtao, Sept. 8.
During the last week in August the enrive properties of the Ame can Presbyterian Mission (South) at Haichow, Kiangsu, were evacuate ed by the Nationalist soldiery after fan occupation that had been prac tically continuous for the: last 15 months. Two representatives of. that Mission went to Haichow about month ago and were courteous received by all the civil and Tiilitary officials on whom they called, It is a pleasure to state that none of these officials, being new arrivals, were in anywise respon. sible for the great destruction that these buildings have suffered, for they found them wrecks on' their arrival, and in occupying the remnants only followed the precedent of their predecessor These officials all informed us that they had received a general order from Nanking forbidding tre occupation of missionary property and declared they were on the point of evacuation, and one of the mis sion representatives remained until this evacuation was actually observced to be in process of fulfilment.
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