393.1163 Methodist Mission/55: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 14—7:30 a.m.]
203. Reference my 191, March 8, 6 p.m.,21 regarding assurances received from the Japanese authorities that mission property at Soochow and Kashing would be returned by March 15.
I have now been informed by the Methodist Episcopal Mission South that both Soochow University and Laura Haygood Normal School were returned to representatives of the mission on the afternoon of March 9. The mission states that the return was effected smoothly and courteously and that the Japanese military authorities arranged for representatives of the mission to go through the University building a few days before the property was returned and point out which furnishings and equipment belonged to the Mission.
The American Presbyterian Mission South has informed me that occupied mission property at Kashing, Chekiang, consisting of a hospital, [Page 301] boys school and two foreign residences, was officially returned to the mission by the Japanese on March 10.
Repeated to Chungking, Peiping and Tokyo.
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