Front a foreign point of view, however, there is little difference whether property is occupied by troops or political bodies, and the scandal of the retention of part of the American Church Mission premises remains. Some of this property has Veen evacuated, but. the Headquarters of the Nanking Kuomintang still reigns in St. Paul's 'Church; belonging to the Mission. A consecrated building is still being! used as the seat of a propaganda' bureau, for the district Kuomintang is little else.
When the order was issued missions, whose premises in other cities! under control of the Nanking Government were occupied were circularized and asked to report to officials of their consulates whether there had been any improvement-as: a result. Reports had not been Received from these bodies, the time limit having only just expired, but reports of a few'days before showed that foreign" property -in
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