MISSIONARIES SAFE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 58, 6 September 1937, Page 11

MISSIONARIES SAFE

NEWS FROM CHINA

Relief of distress is being maintained by mission hospitals and relief agencies in the war zone in China, stated Colonel Grattan, chief secretary for the Salvation Army in New Zealand, in Auckland on Friday (reports the "New Zealand Herald"). In Shanghai, he said, there was a home for soldiers and sailors and one or two' wellequipped hospitals were maintained by the Salvation Army. -.■■'•■ According to the latest cabled advice from London, said Colonel Grattan, it was reported by the Salvation Army headquarters that all the-women officers and children of missionaries had been transferred from, Shanghai to Hong Kong. The men were. continuing their work in Shanghai with the assistance of the civilian population. There were about twenty officers from Australia, New Zealand, and Europe, as well as, Chinese missionaries in.the Shanghai area at present. A former Auckland resident, Brigadier Ludbrook, wife of the second in command of the Salvation Army work in the district around Shanghai, and a daughter bFLieutenant-Colone] Carm'ichael, retired; of■ Devonport. was probably - among" the women officers evacuated;to Hong Korig. It was also thought that two : New, Zealand sisters on pension* the Adjutants Newton, were travelling in China, when hostilities developed,, but no,recent news had been received, concerning their/ movements. v AH the Anglican missionaries in the war zone .were safe, according, to advice from Bishop Norris, Bishop of North China, said Canon C. A. B. Watson, secretary of,the Auckland Diocesan committee for foreign missions. The message was cabled to the Rev. F. C. Long, general secretary of the Board of Missions in New Zealand. There are a few nfissibnaries from China in the Dominion at present on furlough and 'they have been recommended to delay their return to China until the cessation of hostilities.