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Far City. For the first time in many weeks a courier brought news that Sianfu, a walled city of 500,000 population and the capital of Shensi province, is still enduring the siege laid to it in mid-April. At that time the besieged were supposed to be adherents of Feng Yu-hsiang and the besiegers proclaimed their allegiance to Wu Pei-fu. Since then both Feng and Wu have suffered eclipse, but the siege continues "on its own," so to speak. Thirty-one foreign missionaries, eight of them U. S. citizens, were reported still held in Sianfu, last week, apparently as hostages.
Missionaries Harassed. Widespread but meagre reports told last week that foreign missionaries are being molested in China at present as never before. No instances of murder were reported, but unsubstantiated accounts of kidnapings, looting of missionary premises and some unprecedented disorder were numerous. Pending the arrival of trustworthy despatches many U. S. mission executives withheld the names of missionaries reported molested from the press to quench premature sensationalism.
*The Ford Chinese Students Club entertained on this anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Edsel Ford and Mayor John W. Smith of Detroit at a banquet in the palm room of the King Wah Lo Cafe, Detroit.