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Cantonese Troops Reported Seizing American Property in China’s Fukien Province
A Reuter dispatch says missionaries have been told to leave some stations as the unrest spreads beyond the Yangtze valley.
Cantonese troops are seizing American property at Shaowu and other places in Fukien Province, according to a Reuter dispatch from Peking reported in London on Wednesday and carried by the Associated Press.
The American authorities ordered missionaries to leave some places in Fukien and prepare for immediate departure from other centers, the Evening Star reported. Fukien borders the coast southeast of the middle Yangtze valley, where Hankow and Kiukiang have been the scene of recent anti-foreign riots. An Amoy dispatch the previous Friday had described the position of the missionaries at Shaowu and Kienning as desperate.
The New Britain Herald printed the same dispatch.
Sources
- Evening Star (Washington), Jan. 12, 1927: the Reuter dispatch and the missionaries’ orders <https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1927-01-12/ed-1/?sp=1>
- New Britain Herald, Jan. 12, 1927: the same Reuter dispatch <https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82014519/1927-01-12/ed-1/?sp=1>
This article was drafted with automated tools from the sources listed, checked by a review pass, and published by Daniel Varrone. Corrections: editor@monochromechronicles.com