The Archive · 1925

Missionaries

Peking, July 12 Foreign telegrams from Swatow state that the situation there daily Brows more critical. The employees of British and Japanese nationals, including domestic servants are ci. strike, and there is an embargo on all food supplies to British er Japanese reside The situation is more complicated wing to the city being under two different military commander:

The foreign forces are insuticient to cope with rcssible disorders, 'The telegrams further state that Cantonese soldiers forcibly entered the English Presbyterian Mission at Wakingiu on July 9, beat one missionary, stripped and injured' him with ks Two Indy missionaries were also beaten, insult ed and slightly injured with' krivoss The misticnarics leit' Wukingta the same evening hiding for severs secured a passage ing there exhausted, The British Coz demanding the Swatow ix iment of the dor the Jost. damage—Reuter's Pueifie Service.

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