| Show v or i vr-i vr f J sir t 7 ri Sf j. j 7 i 0 V b J iS S SM M Missionaries ss o 1 ri s' s i in T r china March l Eleven leven El veIl t. t Days S Seeking ee k ing Safety S. S l j r r 7 I Bil Bishop OP Demands Demand Military t. t i- i Escort EScott B Before fore He HeI Hen I n v Win I e ve 1 O Aug 14 UP UP- UP Up-I Up Att After A. A r r a marcia march h of or e eleven ev n days das through rain and nd heat per oVer the mountains of ot th the bandit infested country a a. party of ot Amen Ameri American merlc c cali can 1 Catholic missionaries from re reached ched and rc ng Sunday u General eral L Lu governor oCI of oC 0 I KR chow ordered the of oC foreigners or when invasion b by roving communists was tYas threatened ten d. d The gO governor was unable to guarantee safety I in ln the the city Ii HARDSHIPS RD SHIPS SUFFERED tOn jOn July 30 w when ien the rebel forces were only ten miles s from lan how Bishop John A. A OShea ordered the evacuation n of oC the 9 missionaries Without a military escort they started 9 o on th their lr long journey journe i I dang dangerous rous country The party arty suffered ed terrible hardships I before reaching safety The missionaries were Bishop Paul Dumond tho the Rev fey Daniel I L. L f of or Glenns Falls Falb the then n Rey y William McClimont l Brooklyn the Rev James J. J J J. Corbett Boston Boston Doston Bos Dos ton Sisters of oC Saginaw Mich Groell Groen of oC Buffalo Lucas of W Washington Beggs Begis of oC 1 Philadelphia h Kolb of or Brooklyn De Luddo Ludde of De troit of ot C and ONeill O'Neill of G lm nt n Philadelphia SEVERAL REMAIN Bishop OShea the Rev ne Jules i and the Rev Cahill of ot Philadelphia remained in tn Kim Kan- chow Other missionaries in the vJ vicinity included the Rev Francis of ot Syracuse se Lawrence B B. B G. G CCurtis Curtis of oC Baltimore George G. G 0 O. Erbe Erbo of ot Pittsburg Edward J. J Young of ot Jamestown John John E. E Mc- Mc Lau Laughtin of ot Brooklyn and Francis of ot Brooklyn I was already surrounded British missionaries named Bunting Bunt Bunt- ing Tw and Hall HaJJ with several se women nomen should have departed with the Americans but failed to arrive in It is ts feared that they w were re b besieged in and have no means of oC es es- es cape Bishop OShea declined to leave Iea K r until the government gov gay accepted responsibility for forthe forthe forthe the remaining missionaries and provided provided pro pro- vl vided ed a safe sate eE escort ort C Communists Advance I In N ng District Distri t NA KING Aug 14 H AP AP P com communists today TV were ere reported report d ad advancing Ad- Ad against this this' nationalist government capital and th the sister cities s of ot Hanko and miles up the river from the sea This city was as virtually de defenseless defenseless defense defense- l less ss and appeared doomed should ili the r reds ds continue their threatened attack Few defenders rs r remained within th the mile 32 wall encircling th the capital practically all troops having haying been drawn to fronts on which the government and northern north north- ern r rebels b ls ar aro lighting fighting for tor supremacy supremacy su su- su in China P PEASANTS TURN RED Uneasiness was ivas rife riCe here her as peasants turned c communists and appeared in surrounding t towns armed with rifles Many rany suspected communists were summarily executed at where g defenses w were re being erected and machine e guns mounted Thousands of ot terrified Chinese poured into the city dh frightened their outlying homes b by the invaders In A dozen foreign warships were ere anchored at H affording for tor eigners R. R means o of ot escape In case of ot emergency Many foreign com commercial commercial mercial v vessels also were anch anchored red there ready to evacuate their na na- na- na REOCCUPIED Hunan province pro capital capital capi capi- tal recently sacked and burned by communists was reported reoccupied pled pied by reds Meanwhile rebels occupied the go government nt on two fronts frontA Nationalist Nationalist Nation Nation- alist aUst lines in Shantung and Honan provinces were pounded severely while hUe Cantonese aviators attempting attempt attempt- lag ins to rebels front from Nan Nan- an- an king province pro capital bombed the French Catholic mission mis mis- ton sion n nearly arly destroying it An In Infantry In- In fantry fintry attack accompanying the air all raid caused heavy y casualties casualties' among Chinese se Nationalist troops were cre reported to have retreated in northern Honan province before an on onslaught on- on slaught b by General Feng FenS s troops considered the best In China The rebels TV were ere said to have seized large supplies of oC muni muni- |
