The Archive · 1936

MISSIONARIES IN MANCHOUKUO

Changed Conditions Under New Regime: Advisability of Learning Japanese: Father Burns Still Capti smc, $0 mn ne, RAL"

Religious, educational and medical work, supported by foreign missions in Manchoukuo, "are encountering changed conditions under the new state, Evangelistic work, according to the, statements of several leading missionaries is conducted without hindrance as long as the mission-atles observe the exact leer. of the law.

The, Menchoukuo Official Year Book gives the. foreign population other, than Japanese or Korean as more than 08,000. A great majority of these ore Russians, ce it is all strange that the police a apt to assume every stranger to be a citizen of the USSR, Esch one Is viewed therefore ax' a potential agent of communism, or possibly engaged in espionage for, the Soviet Government. That altitude seems to account for many of the unpleasant moments endured by other forel ers-at the hands of the poll

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