AMERICAN MISSIONARIES
KILLED
WARNING TO COMBATANTS
WASHINGTON, 21st May
The American Minister, Mr Macmurrnv, lianded similar Notes to the Nationalists and the Northern Governments stressing the serious concern with which the United States views the killing of two American missionaries in the recent fighting at Shantung, and emphasising 3 desire that' both sides take every possible measure to prevent the killing of Americans by unseasoned soldiery. Die Note to Nanking urges the Nationalists onlv to send their best troops against pekin, fearing that otherwise there, will be looting and killing of foreigners. The State Department, however, makes it quite plain that the United States has no desire to interfere in the Chinese \ar.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 22 May 1928, Page 5
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