MISSIONARIES EVACUATED BY AIR
Received Thursday, 7 p.m.1'. .'" SHAKGHAI, Jan-. -'14. ' The evacuation bv air of some 200 foreign, mostly American, missionaries pxat-ooned iu the large m.issionary ceutre of Lgohokow about. 200 miles northwest of HankoAv, will begin fomorFow. All Ihe evaonees will be takeh to 1 Haukow. . v The mass evacuation, xvhich was (jaqsed by the recent murder of three missionaries, will be carried out at top speed for fear of further killings in Lgohokow wfiere the slain missionaries were among a group oj? passengers 'required to. alight from a regular passenger Uus in Laohokow on Janqary .7 by 50 armed troops reported to .be.Coniin.unists. After one soldier ha'cl',r said "You are Americans and Americans must die," the Finnish doctor, Alex Berg, was shot dead. Then the group shot down two Atuertcan women missiouaries after kill'ing two Cliinese who" attempt ed to intervene.
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 January 1948, Page 5
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