Consul-General at Shanghai during the absence of Mr. Clarence E. Gauss, telegraphed this information to the State Department, Chapei Baptist Mission Immediately after the American protest was registered both at Tokyo and Shanghai, the Japanese authorities returned the property of the American Southern Baptist Mission in Chapei, Shanghai, The Japanese authorities allowed the mission to assume control of the property on Wednesday, Mr. Lockhart informed the State Department, The Japanese military headquarters agreed to permit American missionaries to return to Nanking, the State Department said The United States demanded that American businessmen and mission-aties be allowed to return to their perties on the lower Yangtze. The test pointed out that Americans d been prevented from having access to their properties in this area on the grounds "that peace and order have not been sufficiently restored."
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