Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-23
IN HANDS o. BOXERS
narrowing Story Of a Party Of
Missionaries Who Escaped
From Huaiss u.
Their Escape From Death at Hands
Of Boxers Was Almost
Miraculous
Captures by Boxers and Cruelty
Treated Often Faced Death
by Torture.

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Pao Ting Flu, Nov. 2s.-when the
story of the period of blood and mas
sacre in China is told few of its chap
tiers will be as brilliant as the narrative
of the Green party. who We're found al
most dead by the allied expedition. The
tale of their iiardships and escapes and
almost miraculous preservation has
leaked to the outer world by piece meal.
but to the correspondent of the Assoc
GATED Press its details of suffering and
cruelty were told for the first time by.
Miss Greig.
MIR. ard Mrs. Green, members of the
British Chinese inland mission, with
two children. a boy and a girl, aged .
nd 3 years. and Miss Greig. assistant,
we're statloned at Huai Lu, a small
town 12O milss south of this place. Dur
isg the first week OF July news of mas
ssscre eff missionaries We're received in
Tao Ting Flu and also news of the de-
struction of the mission@at Shun III F'u
G'hao and Shen vi. and the moving OF
troops from Sfen 81 province towards
'Tien Tsin 10 attack the foreigners. On
hearing CT this state of affairs the little
party moved away to the mountains on
the advice of the mandarin. to go into
hiding They took With them only a few.
bare necessities, carrying the children
asleep in their arms. AND We're; coaduct-
ed by two or three Chinese servants TO
the Chinese temple a short distance
back in the hills.
Here they remained two days and
were then Informed by the villagers
who used the temple that they must
leave. They were also told that their
homes had been destroyed and the site
made the headquarters OF the Boxer
camp. Some friendly Chinese showed
the party a small cave little distance
from the temple, Where they remained
serreted for two days ana three nights,
suffering the utmost discomfortss their
hiding place being only about SIX by
four. with water dripping from the
roof
While the party lay in the cave the
Isoxers were sem and heard searching
the mountains FOL, the foreign devils.
ON the third day their servants discoV-
cred them and led them 10 farm
house. Where the party lived for a
month in one small room, not daring TO
st!. from their retseai in the day time
and only with the greatest caution at
i night. on August IS the Boxers dis
covered their hiding place, from winch
their most mad made tunnel to a cave
I i short t.istance away. Tile Boxers
demanded that the little Band be giver
llt,@tn them. On hearing hat then
5abenefaetor was being beaten ana 81o !.
4 .tarefi. Mir. Green determined TO siYe
I himself up and do What ne eoiita 20
/ save his wife and little ones and Miss
4 Graig.
AZ the miss ionars appeared at the
/ mouth of the cave ne VAS Immediately
4 shot in the face With charge OF me
Il pes lets. Mounted and bleeding, ne
\ heated for the women and chitd1an
but NTH no avail. The Boxers soiesetee
sthern from the tunnel and the fright
tened women came forth expecting M
dsath ~ worse. KNIVES ard SWORDS
/ were held over their heads and all 4theh
possessioa1s were taken from them sA
cent their clothing. They were ther
Il made to march 10 Huai Lu. their Tor
II Ine.r home Here they We're met by m
4; mandarin upon whose advice they hat
gone into hiding. This man beat am
4 a bi,sed Mr. Green ana reproached hin
for not coming 10 him for advice an
3 protection The mandarin said that n
a would send. the party TO Chen Ting y
4 with an escort of imperial troops. h
assured then? they would receive alnpl
4 protection at Cheng Ting Flu.
ii Tie party were placed in rough WOO
four-wheeled carts and started on thei
q. tourney. About three miles out the.
we're ovartaken by the Boxers who ha
ioriginally captured them. and on reach
ting Cheng Ting Fu were refused ad
! mission to the city because Of their es
fcort. For three days and nights With
sEout a stop except at rare intervals,
rartake of native food. they We're carte
thru the country to Pao Ting Flu.
Il Loaded with abuse, mistreated an
!. suffering. the place literally swarmin
J. with -rraxers demanding their lives, til
: flapless prisoners were escorted to tn
:. yamen OF the chief magistrate, Tin
81 uen. who refused to receive then
Then occurred a strange incident. Th
.Eehief Poker himself pleaded for his pTls
oners and induced Ting Yuen to com
and speak to Mr.. Green. He expresse
sorrow al seeing the condition of tn
prisoners and said he would send thet
to Tien Tsin under an escort of imperis
troops and with his official passports
He also offered to provide them wit
! sufficient money to secure food on tn
I journey. That morning they We're take
to boat but found neither troops nc
passports. Their fate was again in tn
hands of the Boxers. who took theI
: some thirty miles down the river, an
/. ron Wednesday afternoon landed them
!. a marsh covered with high reeds, an
4 informed them that Ting Yuen had OIL
2 dered that they should be put to deaf
h and their bodies disposed of.
At this time the children We're ur
!, Idoubtedly the means of saving the live
/, lof the entire party. for the same Boxt
y who had previously interceded for the
) had evidently conceived a great friend
illness for the little ones, who cried an
told Mr.. Green that they must try
!. reach Tien Tsir1 alone He then left the,