In consequence of the military situation all missionaries have now withdrawn from Linfeng Kuwo and Kiangchow. In each of these cities it has been increasingly difficult to obtain provisions, and Kuwo and Kiangchow have been besieged ior weeks at a time until the bare necesies of life were hardly obtainable even at famine prices. Although x has been necessary to vacate these cities for the time being there is good evidence that any privations endured on behalf of the people for whom they stayed to minister has been deeply appreciated and will open further avenues in after days for the preaching of the evangel Chairman of al Council, wired o Generals Wu Teh-chen and Vu Hen-mou and to the Kwangtung people in general on October 16. from Chungking, declaring that the Japanese invasion of South China represents Japan's last effort to overwhelm this country, and urging them io seize the opportunity by the forelock so as to bring about an early final Chinese victory, say:
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