The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-11

wsnt to do away with us men first and |
attend to the women afterwards. I had |
one revolver In my right hand. 1t was |,
a siAshooter wanted every shot to tell |
hesaS VINO had the other two revolvers |
laid several Chinese low in death and |
wetnded several others before their weap-
ops were knocked out of their hands by
stfnes and sword cuts. / killed two Chi |
nese myself-that is. i believe they must
hdve afterwards died from the wounds
+ infiicted-and 1 winged several Others
perhaps badly wounding them. But my
active fighting was soon brought to a
close by vicious sword slash by an in
fcrfsted Chinese whom I had wounded.
He cut me across the right wrist, knock
ing the pistol from my grasp and render
ing the arm powerless.
Most fortunately for our hard-pressed
party Just as things were beginning to
look hopeless for US. some of the Chinese
pounced upon our valuables. 1t was now
evtcent that they valued our belongings
mSre than our heads. At any rate, the
others, seeing that their comrades were
grabbing everything in sight of any value
al all. left of fighting and rushed to se-
cure their share of the spoils. In this
way they fell to fighting among them
selves and robbed US of everything we
had-money, personal belongings and
all, even going SO far to tear the skirts
on the women and cut the buttons off our
clothes with their swords. They actually
ST atched pair of suspenders off one of
the men as trophy OF ,ne encounter.
Why II was they spared our lives i do
not know, but they let us go on after
they had thoroughly robbed US.
/ we were able to proceed only with the
~ latest difficulty, but four days after
wards We were aboard canal boats and
had something like another 400 miles
journey In the boats. We were compara-
7 70 VIZ haH rrixya uon
kew, and from there we took steamer to
Shanghai.
J Not only the Boxers are determined
ITO drive. foreigners out of China, but all
Ithe Chinese, They are all the same. There
lsEouId be no distinction made. The off,
lcials of all the provinces are urging the
lp. ople against the missionaries and all
foreigners. Their word is good for moth
iirR. No foreigner In China today will be-
lieve a thing told him by a Chinese off,
cial. Everyone Is of the firm opinion that
the foreigners in Peking have been mas
sacred Nothing will convince them to
the contrary. They know the Chinese ma
trre, know that they can't be trusted and
know also how they hate the whites.
Il have fifteen wounds as result of my
encounter with the Chinese. My whole
bcdy bears souvenirs of the fight. / don't
knew II / will ever be able to use my
) right hand again. I'm going home to
Montreal now with my wife. Fortunate
ly. my wife received no serious injuries
in the fight. few slight bruises, that il
all: and the other ladies also happily es
capped without injury. The other mem
bers of our party are not with US on the
. ste smtr; they arc going home later Some
, Of the men were pretty severely injured
poor fellows. but / think they'll come
: around all right. We were fourteen day
a travelling in carts, ten days on the boat
p and three days oil steamer to Shanghai
q We travelled about 100 miles in all, fee
: lii'g from the Chinese. We left Shangha
e on July % and left Yokohama for hom
a lon August /. In Shanghai the foreigner
n are restless, but anticipate no danger"
!. Other missionaries aboard the Hong
J. kong Maru are DIR. G. III. Denman, froT
I. Siam; Mrs. L. Durstler. from Japan, an
Il DR.. and Mrs. w. Malcolm and two Chi
y dien, Mrs. w. Mcclure and three chi
II dren, Mrs. f. ". Partch and child, d
ID and Mrs. j. Z. Skinner and two childre
p and Dr. II. G. welpton, from China