The Archive · 1939

Marooned by Floods

Peiping, July 90.

Sixteen British missionaries from the Baptist Hospital at Talyuantu, who were driven out by the anti British movement there, ave at pros= ent marooned at Shihehiachtang, floods having completely disrupted raffle on the Peiping-Hankow Railway. They were en route to Peiping.

Practically all British missionaries have been driven from Shansi, though the fate of & few in South Shansi is not known. They have not been heard of since.

'The anti-British campaign has taken a step forward. 'The Peiping police have visited all Chinese shops Instructing them to. remove British goods and pack them away as they are not allowed to sell them, It is Learned that several' Chinese guilds met secretly this week and passed a resolution against the boycott of British goods, stating that Dusiness is bad enough' as it is It fs understood that the Chinese guilds have notified the leaders of the anti= British campaign to this effect—Reuter,

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