393.1115/4100: Telegram
The Consul General at Hankow (Josselyn) to the Secretary of State
[Received February 26—7 a.m.]
49. Department’s 22, February 24, 5 p.m.,11 Americans remaining at Kuling. There are 11 Americans remaining at Kuling: Henry Baker an architect, and the following missionaries, Dr. and Mrs. Walter Libby and son aged 12, Miss Nancy Fry, Mrs. G. L. Hagman, Miss Rachel Mostrom, the Reverend and Mrs. Wesley Lawton senior, and the Reverend and Mrs. Hugh White.
Their reasons for remaining in the face of threatened danger are several and vary with the individual. They are: 1. Infirmity and old age. [2.] Several Americans remaining at Kuling have retired there and if they leave they have no other home of their own to go to. 3. Loyalty to associates and dependents. For example, Libby has about 35 tubercular Chinese patients which in conscience he will not abandon. He further declares that if there is fighting he will be the more needed. Miss Nancy Fry, a nurse, stays for similar reasons Mrs. Walter Libby is caring for refugees. Miss Mostrom is in charge of a group of Chinese women teachers and students whom she declines to leave.
This office is in sympathy with the motives which have persuaded them to stay.
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