Restoration of Mission Property Acknowledged Acknowledgment the -con derate treatment the provincial government and' the sionary Society in Chekian
ity of Hangchow is made in the course of a special statement transmitted. to" the "North-China [ed, Daily News" by Bishop John Curtis.
"in 1927," writes Bishop Custis, wae advancing' "southern" armies swept through Hangchow as well as elsewhere, and when they had passe fed and the situation was stabilize the authorities of the Church wary Society found that all ther?
erty had been selzed_and was Seeupied by various bodies, some communistic, some' more or less governmental, and some not much tore than private, "As political matters developed
again, much of the property was anu, government "became "stable Feturned, after a good deal of delay, fand the very gradual untying of ery ltnge amount of Zed tae, 'The it tation was. complicated because there was much property in the city held in the name of @ former pro iment member of the "mission, and the authorities professed great difculty in' knowing "what was and what was. not "mission property. However, by" perseverance on the part of the mission authorities and Investigation on the part of the pro Vinelal' authorities, aided. by good will on the part of prominent mem Bers of the Central' Government in Nanking, all was at length restored, though one residence. was only of. cially given back well on in 1031, and naiother somewhat later.
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