Nanking, Oct. 1.
'The Foreign Office received a telegram to-day from General King Sha-jen, chairman of the Sinkiang Provincial Government, stating that the party, of German' missionaries who left Peking for Sinkiang in July arrived safely in that province September & and that special instructions had been issued to the various local authorities to give the necessary facilities and protection.
This message from the chairman of the Sinkiang Provincial Government is of special interest here as there have been rumours regarding the alleged attempt of General King to prevent foreigners from entering his province. There are reports also that a number of foreigners obtained their passports from the Foreign Office at Nanking and made arrangements with the authorities in the capital to go to Sinkiang, but upon their arrival at the Sinkiang border, according to these reports, the foreigners were turned back and the instructions from Nanking ignored by the authorities in Sin-Kiang—Reuter. eighty villages have been burned, Some enticely and others partially, and where houses have been left standing, they. have been looted Reuter.
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