Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-29
NINE MISSIONARIES
SAFE NEAR NANK|NG
Three Former Washington
mans at Adventist College
on Shanghai Road.

Nine Adventist missionaries sta
toned ~ the China Junior Missionary
College, 80 miles out of Marking on
the Shanghai road, are safe, according
to laconically reassuring cable re
coived this morning at the Adventist
conference headquarters at Takoma
Park.
The briefness of the message, how
ever. raises the question of whether
the men may not have remained at
the college and still be Drawing the
Chinese mobs rather than have sought
| refuge in the city. of Marking and
come out with the other Americans
under protection of Navy guns.
Ii. they actually were at a point OF
safety, 1T is felt at the conference
Headquarters, they would have given
some details Of the situation by this
time instead Of cabling merely three
words: college family safe"
Include Three Washingtonians.
Among them are three Washington
men, DIR. Donald Griggs, j. A. Guild
and G.. A. Carter, all formerly con-
nected with the Washington Mission
others are: u. e. Rebok, s. Fl. Lindt,
n. L. Shull, p. e. Quimby, F. A. Ian.
dis and Ernest Hurd.
The same doubts obtain concerning
the hospital staff located at the Ad-
yentist compound, on hte outskirts OF
Shanghai, who are in charge or DIR.
Harry w. Miller, formerly head of the
Washington Sanitarium, at Takoma
Park. DIR. Miller to date has sent
only a brief message that the party
is safe, and there Is the same sus-
picious lack of details, which may in
dictate that the little group still is
Iii. +Ln toll q
Gated four or five miles from the In
ternational settlement.
Some basis to this view is afforded
by the known attitude Of DIR. Miller
toward the situation. which leads to
the conclusion that only In the most
extreme circumstances would he be
inclined to evacuate the hospital.
Uncertain. as to Future.
Associated with DR.. Miller at the
! Adventist compound are: DIR. Roger
w. Paul son of Mrs. Jennie Il. Paul
of AZ Woodland avenue, Takoma
| Park; Mrs. Paul, DIR. William A.
Woolgar, formerly of the Washington
| Sanitarium and Elizabeth Redelstein,
l.. Ruth Stickney, Mr.. and Mrs. Otis
G.. Enrich and Malcolm Knowles, all
| registered nurses and graduates of
| the Takoma Park institution.
| The future Adventist mission work
! In China cannot be speculated upon
without further details concerning
| personal danger to the missionaries
| and loss of property, Ernest Kotz, as
| sistant secretary of the general con-
| ference. said today. Mr.. Kotz believes,
| however, that any setback Will be
| temporary at best and that the pres
| ent situation should be handled most
cautiously by the western powers,
particularly the United States.
| He Is hourly expecting cables with
additional information concerning the
i hospital and college groups.
The third group of Adventist mis-
sionaries In China is known to be
! safe. They We're students OF the Chi
nese language, preparing for mis-
sionary duty at Marking, and came
| out OF the mobswept city with the
other Americans.
Five Safe i'm HOngk0ng.
Five Dominican missionaries who
sailed for China last November after
receiving their charges at st. Domi-
nir's Church are safe In Hongkong.
They are Rev Michael Gordon, 0. r.;
Rev Robert K. Brennan, o. r.; Rev.
Tohn Burke, o. r.; Rev Aquinas Cor
don O. r., and Rev. Ferrer Cassidy,
o. j..
DIR. Edgar Speiden, 1925 New York
avenue. received cabiegram yester-
day from the Woman's Baptist For
eign Missionary Society, giving as
surance of the safety of his daughter,
Miss Evelyn Speiden, and other mis-
sionaries who have sought refuge at
Shanghai. Miss Speiden was sta
toned in the province of Huchow,
| but was directed to go to Shanghai
| January 81 DIR. Speiden received also
three belated letters from his
daughter.