paganda Bureau in Church Though most occupied foreign perty. has been evacuated, some til being held by troops and political bodies in Nanking, directly flout ing the order issued' on September! 11 by the Nationalist Military Council that foreign property should be vacated within ten days.. The time limit expired on Sept. 21 and a representative of the "North-China Daily News" made it his business; to inquire how the order had been carried out.
The Kuo Min message of September 11 through which news of the onder first reached Shanghai read as follows:—
Complete evacuation of all private premises including residences, mission Property, churches and schools, within Todays' iso solitary Counelt in an f tke Gopal, Any maititary affeer ignoring Ske order wilt render himself Hable te pital, Any military officer Sgnorin
is nasal, the order concludes.
Some Troops Disobey At the time this order was issued! much of the foreign property in the capital had already been evacuated, the Presbyterian Mission compound, which had been used as barracks by} soldiers, having been left at the end of August. The American Church Mission premises were occupied by the Headquarters of the Nanking Kuomintang, the
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