Group Title : Subject File

Series Title : The Canton Incident & The Anti-Christian Movement

Date(s) : 1925 to 1928

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Item Description : This file contains correspondence and reports relating  to "The Canton Incident" of 23 June 1925 and the anti-Christian/British movement of 1925-1927.

Included in this file are :- correspondence, reports, newspaper reports documenting the Whampoa Communist Cadets and French/British Incident at Shameen, Canton (23/6/1925); general correspondence, reports, newspaper reports and telegrams documenting the general anti-British and anti-Christian campaign in China (1925-1927); copy of "The Hongkong Weekly Press" (27/6/1925); report from Rev. GH McNeur (c. 1925); report from China Inland Mission (1925); correspondence from "The National Christian Council of China" (Shanghai) and the "International Missionary Council" (New York), 1925-1927; resolutions of "Conference of Missionary Societies in Great Britain and Ireland" in regard to China (1925 and 1926); correspondence with NZ Government re revision of treaties between Great Britain and China (1926); political intelligence; reports and telegrams from NZ missionaries in South China including  evacuation of all missionaries to Hong Kong; report re compensation for property losses in China suffered by various British missionary societies (1928).
 

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