The Archive · 1934

HAICHOW BANDITS' BLACKMAIL LETTER

Specified Time Limit in Few Days: Many Offers of Help: Missionaries'

Decision to Remain Froxt Oct Ows chow, Ku, June 22, China 15, of the account of the blackmail etter received by the members of the! American Presbyterian Mission at Haichow, many. solicitous inquiries have reached the Haichow mission~ aries, Some of the inquiries indi cate a desire to know more details, fand especially to be informed of Tecent developments. Other mem-_ bers of the Southern Presbyterian' Mission have most generously offered to come to Haichow and carry on' the work for some months and thus allow the families with children, who are here, to go away for a while fat Toast until the time set by the threatening letter for taking ven~ glance in case the money is not paid None of the Haichow group have felt it wite to leave the field under the circumstances, especially when it clear that there never has been general they fare right now, and there has never been & time when the work being done in the Haichow field has shown Breater opportunities and greater enuine progress; furthermore, the missionaries in Haichow fave growing confidence in the ability of the authorities to handle the bandit problem.

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