FEARS FOR MISSIONARIES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18973, 25 March 1936, Page 13

FEARS FOR MISSIONARIES

NORTH CHINA PERIL COMMUNISTS TAKE CITY (Klee. Tel. Copyright—Baited Press Assn.) (Toed. March 25, 2 p.m.) LONDON. March 24 The Pekin correspondent of The Times says (.hid Communists are reported to have taken lluug-Tung whore British and American missionaries wore reported on Sunday to be imperilled. Nothing further lias been, heard regarding the missionaries. The. Pingyang Central Covernmcnl has replied to the lirilish Embassy promising every effort tu protect the mission aries. The Pekin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph pays that '.two expedil inis; are moving against the < 'nuinumisl s and the safely of the missionaries depends on whether the expedition is Slireessfill A message dispatrhed from London on Sunday slated that the rescue by auto gyro of British and Aiiierieaii missionaries who were threateii,ed by Communist troops in North China was being planned. They could he reached only by air. while the terrain made il impossible for an ordinary aeroplane to land. The mimher impel illed was not known. liel (he China Inland Missipu had an iiounced that there were at least 15 adult;, and several children in Hung Tung, including Mr. and Mrs. A. Trndinger, of Australia. Mr. ('. It. Edwards, of Australia, and liis wife, who is a l.timloner. and Mrs. IT. 11. Knight., said to he an Australian. Nine, adults and four children were believed, to be ill danger in I’ingyaiig. TWO BELIEVED SAFE ADVICE AT AUCKLAND (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, ibis day. A private cablegram received at Auckland states that Mr. 11. 11. Knight and his wife, of Auckland, who were reported to lie in danger as the result ol the activities of Cm unist troops ill China, are safe, and had begun their return to the province of Kansu. They could not, therefore, have been at Hung Tung.