AMAZING CHARGE.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17170, 29 March 1927, Page 5

AMAZING CHARGE.

WHAT WILL BRITAIN AND AMERICA DO NOW? New YORK, March 27. Received Mopday 8 p.m. The "New York Times" Shanghai correspondent writes: Missionaries who, until Thursdayi, scoffed! at the • Consular advice to withdraw from the Yangtse valley are now hastening to evacuate the whole of that country leaving hehind the work and hopes of half a century with little prospect of returning unless gun boats are employed to re-open the country as in 1900. The change of opinion is amazing. Only a f'ortnight. ago the United Protestant Association appointed delegations to England and America to explain the Nationalist movement in a favourable light, but now that women as well as men have been mistreated, their attitude has changed. The question which is asked is: Will America with Britain, re-establish trading and teaching privileges by force, and is being answered in the negative. Hundreds of Nationals of these countries are therefore hasteningV homeward v/ith Shanghai as only a temporary stopping place. This it can he said, so far as Americans in China are concerned, there has been a sharp awakening to the actual situation."