MANCHURIA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, Issue LIV, 6 December 1920, Page 5

MANCHURIA

JAPANESE AND MTSSIONAIBES (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian & N.Z* Cable Association* "tOKIO, Dec. 2. The Japanese military mission at Chiontao presented a letter to the chief of the Canadian Presbyterian Mission at Hungclmn saying that British missionaries must either cease political anti-Japanese activities or get out. The letter reviews recent events in the subduing of Korean mnkconteut.d, admitting the burning of churches and schools and the. shooting of many insurgents, but denies killing without preliminary trial or burning without justification. It says it Is possible some innocent _ people wen* executed, but nob knowingly, as the Japanese troops had’strict orders to imitate General Dyer at Amritsar. The letter reminds the Canadian niissionaric.s that the British Dominions aro> also troubled by revolutionary plotters and urges them not to give legal excuses to Japanese Buddhists to go to India and assist the non-co-operaiors, or to Ireland and assist the Sinn Eeiners. It says the Japanese troubles in Manchuria have parallels elsewhere, citing the British-Afghan border and troubles on the AmericanMexican border, while Japan entered Manchuria only after the Chinese had failed, to suppress Korean plotters. It adds that the British and Japanese had mutual trouble and must show, mutual sympathies. 4 ■ •