CHINA SITUATION.
Po\yers Prepared to Protect
Nationals.
TENSION 'EASIER
(Received 12.30"* p.m.) SHANGHAI, August 7.
The situation around Hankow is reported easier. Washington has declared its readiness, in case of necessity, to land-forces to protect American nationals. It is believed the British and Japanese will do likewise.
PAY IF NECESSARY. I-ADY MISSIONARIES' RANSOM. . LONDON, August 7. The secretary of the Church Missionary Society, the Rev. W. Cash, announces that he has authorised the society's secretary at Foocliow, China, to pay the ranSom demanded by the captors of -Misses Edith Nettleton and E. J. Harris°n if necessary.
SLAVERY OF THE MIND. v , CHINA'S BAN ON RELIGION. SHANGHAI, August 1. In reply to a protest by the local representatives of missionary bodies in ,Unna against tlio prohibition of religious teaching in mission schools, the banking Government states that all religions involve a slavery of the mind, 3jid that it is not prepared to differentiate between them. *|o restrictions liave been placed on • medical missions.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 186, 8 August 1930, Page 7
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