LI have received the following extract from a letter from" the Secretary of State for For Affairs to Mr. Kenneth Maclennan, of the Conference of Societies on the subject of missionary safety in the interior. dated November 26:
"Consular Oficers will, continue, mat tar uch advice "thole the situation their jddement to demand." Indeed: exloting. at. the mone seams. in His" MaSesty's 'Minister' recently Gilat Omeets "enjoining ar fieutae Wwatehfuiness at "this, time ever the safety of British subjects introns where dangerous condition ate ikely to, arise, and. requesting all Consular ofoers not to hesitate advise, in good. time "the with: iawal of missionaries. and lither BHtish Subjects. fromthe" interior of the various eonaulne districts or from any. areas "therein likely ieeome dangerous for foreign re~
A few weeks ago Sir Kingsley Wood asked Mr. Herderson, in the House of Commons whether, view of the Chinese Governnient's inability to protect missionaries. in the interior, the negotiations for the abolition of extraterritoriality would go on.
Mr, Henderson's reply was that the could not sce that the two ques tions had anything: to do with each other.
T understand that another ques tion on the dangers of missionaries
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