12 New Zealand Missionaries Will Stay on the Field

Chronicle (Levin), 15 October 1949, Page 5

12 New Zealand Missionaries Will Stay on the Field

Eeceived Friday Midnight HONG HONG; 06t. 14. BeUter'g Hdftg Kong correaopndent says Oonififfiflistg ti?0dpfe Will OffidiaUy marCIi iiitc) Gaflton at 11 tomorroW, acdordiiig to a OliineSQ soiirce. tfhe BirCetof df Piiblic WOfkSj who is the ihost senior B'ationalist offldial f emaiiiihg thefOj wili haiid over the city, - General Chen Ming's • ipee^heads afe reported to have captured th| white dieud aifheid ajpproxiiflateiy three miles from Cantdh, All air services from Oanton haye been suspefldCd. The British rivet veSS81 . WuSUeft which left O&fiton last ftigbt arrived at Hong Kong this morning after being dred .oh by Natioaauste Shoftiy after ieaving Oanton. The last group of foreigners evacuating Oanton is ekpected to leave tonight aboard the BritiSh . VesseP Fatshan. •' Twelve - of the, 17 New Zealand Presbyterian' WiesiOhariei j M, the South Ohina field ' are remaining . fdr the coniiftunist occupatien . aceording to an aimouiioemefit tedjay by Rav, J. g. Murrfty, of . AUoklaftd, overseas missionary secretary for "the ohftroh, Mr Murtay ' had jnst fetiffned to Hong Kong from a'tdnr of the South china field.' He eaid the migg'ienaries are safe, weli and did. nOf SXpect any special difficulties in' their work, Most of the missionaries are on the compound of the Kong Ohuen mission bospital about 15, miles from Oanton,