In connection with the "Japanese request that foreigners withdraw from Hangchow before that" area becomes a battlefield, Dr. Robert F. Fitch, one of the prime movers in the Dropasal to establish "safety. zone" in the West writ "Because of the serious fiiness of lone of the foreigners In Hangchow who has just left, the total number now Is reduced to thirly. of whom fourteen are women, Besides the Postal Commissioner and the agent fof the Aslatle Petroleum Company. there are 28 missionaries, four in {the Roman Catholic Church and the remaining 24 representing Protestant churches of Great Britain and the [United States. Because of the Jexistence of the Church Missionary \Soclety hospital, over half of the total number are British.
It is personal opinion. that not one of these foreigners will leave the city the impending crisis, but it Is for {the missionary body alone that T am qualified to speak.
"Missionary work in China has now been conducted for over 3 century and a quarter of time. Tt has represented certain principles of world brotherhood, of faith Ju a Common Source for human person: ality, of loyalty, of the princiote of service. Its exponents feel that to be consistent with the faith they have expressed they must exhibit these principles in times of danger as well as in times of safety. What they have taught all these' years ceases to have reality if in times of crisis they fall those whom they have trusted and who trust them.
Mangchow Foreign Group Sate "Can it not be said that the refusal Shanghai, Dec, 27 AN foreign residents of Hangchow were reported to be sate at 4 o'clock fon Saturday, a Japanese military spokesman announced yesterday evening.
Following the complete occupation of the Inkeside city on Christmas: Day, a representative of the foreism community called at the Japanese feld headquarters to state that all third party nationals were safe and well, the spokesman declared. The exact number of foreigners In Hangchow was unknown to the Japanese military authorities in Shanghai, the emeer said, It was, however, understood that the community numbered about 32. demand of the Japanese military with his staff. command to leave Nanking pre-|" vented in a large measure the Reneral bombing of that city and contributed to the saving of thousands of lives that might otherwise have been destroyed?" No one who lives elsewhere can have very much idea fof the horror that seizes a clty—dally awaiting wide-spread destruction of aeroplane bombing. The Chinese of such a city, high and low, feel that ithe presence of their foreign friends fends to mitigate to a certain extent the horrors of war. Tt Is not merely the Christians of the city but the entire population who feel that those who have taught friendship and Adelity, If they leave In a crisis like
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