The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-28
AMERI}ANS IN CHINA.
ANTI-FORHGN KEELING AND
 FEAR OF GERMANY.

Rev. James H. Roberts, Experience in
 China-Harford Missionary Re-
 turns Afte- Twenty-eigh and One-
 Half Years in Land of Confucius-
 Boycott Movement Gained Down.
 Exclusion Act and People.
 Rev. James H. Roberts and wife re- turned last week to Hartford from China where, for the past twenty eight and ont-half years, MT. Roberts has been engaged in missionary and educational york in connection with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. During this pe- riod he has returned but three times to America, the last time in 1900, during the Boxer upnsing, when, with a par ty of tWenty-.our missionaries, he fled across the Mongolian desert of Gold into Siberia to escape death at the hands of the natives, MT, Roberts, :" says the Hartford Courant, was graduated from the Hartford public high school in 1869, his being the last class to graduate from the old building at the corner of Ann and Asylum streets. In 1878 he was graduated from the academic department at Yale, and in 1876 from the Divinity school. Soon after leaving the latter school he went to China, where he has been To- cated at Kalgan, a city in the interior of the northern part, about one hun- dred and fifty miles northwest of Pe- king, in the province of Chihil This city is situated near the great wall that was built two hundred years be- fore the opening of the Christian era. It was from Kaigan that the party set out in their flight from the country and of this experience, Rev. Roberts said to a Courant reporter yesterday:
 We went one thousand miles across the great Mongolian desert, using only camels and horses to make the jour ney. It was tedious trip, accompa- nied by great hardships from improper food and a scarcity of water. Often we had to go from five to ten days with only one square meal and the problem of getting water for our par ty which included, besides the mis- sionaries seven Mongols, twenty cam els and nineteen horses, was no easy one There were six women and six children in the party, and for these the l journey was particularly hard, One of the children died just as we reached the Siberian border as a result of the constant exposure and improper food. The child was buried in well-kept Russian cemetery.
 "The Russian officials were very kind to us and at that time a good feeling existed toward America, but dare say that since the Japanese wal this feeling has changed somewhat owing to the sympathy Americans ex- pressed for the Japanese. Our journey across the desert lasted seventy-one days during June, July and August oi 1900, and at all times we were in con | stant danger of our lives, so you car well imagine that our rate of travel twenty-three miles a day, seemed very slow and irksome to us After we ar rived at Lake Baikal it was much eas fer. owing to the kindness of the peo. pie. Lake Baikal Is one of the mos beautiful inland seas in the world, an( it is the only one which contains seals These came In while the lake was stil a part of the Arctic ocean and have been there ever since. Brom Baika we went to Europe by way of the Si' berian railway, and thence home.'
 Mir. Roberts has written a book or his experiences during this flight, en titled, "A Flight for Life; and an In, side View of Mongolia" It Is pub lished by the Pilgrim Press of Boston Referring to the present awakening O China he said:
 "There is at present in China ; strong anti-forelgn feeling, and thi is reinforced by the new spirit of na tional patriotism which has for it slogan, China for the Chinese. Tn, people desire to initiate Japan and s secure independence and the respect o the world There is no particular feel ing against the missionaries, but tn