The Holbrook news., 1912-06-07

q LADY correspondent who has
 just returned from China has
 given the Sphere some very 1A interesting details of her
 flight to safety during the revolution in China.
 After five days travelling by road in native conveyances," she writes, putting up at Chinese inns except
 when we were fortunate enough to meet with a mission station, we were in the highest spirits at finding our selves once more on railway station platform. We were now collected, a party of 23 of various nationalities. all having been recalled to the coast by our several ministers. The station was Yutze, the last but one on the French line which will in time cross the province of Shansi from north to south The present terminus is Tai Yuen Flu, the provincial capital, where
 fierce fighting had recently taken place when the city fell into revolu- tionary hands
 Our train was timed for ten a. m.. but 1t was four p. m. when it arrived from Tai Yuen Flu containing several officials on their way to Man tz Kuan on the northeast frontier of the province. On either side of the noun pass at this point were massed large numbers of soldiers belonging to the army of the emperor and the army of the people, as they are called by the Chinese, impatient at this time to be- s-fv, Auhff-1 Wo xxyaro ouoro ,f thfc and hoped to pass through the arm les before the fighting began. This hope was soon dashed when our train after three hours travelling stopped at a station called Yang Chu'en, and MT. Lin, the secretary of the Tai Yuen foreign office, appearing at the door of our compartment, said: 'Velly much fighty; train no go on It was true, and we were soon detached from the remainder of the train, which with military officials on board, steamed towards the scene of action and left us on a siding.
 "Mr. Lin was most attentive, but the situation looked black. There were no inns open, the innkeepers having, closed their doors and run away for fear of the soldiers, who commander everything and do not pay We were therefore obliged to make ourselves as comfortable as we could in our large third-class railway car, which fortunately was new and clean.
 No Heating Apparatus.
 We had good supply of rugs
 
 luggage was piled up in our car, and so we made our beds as best we could and spent a pretty uncomfortable night in an icy atmosphere, for the heating apparatus was not working, and for all light couple of candles, which We dared not use for fear of running short We did not suffer from hunger, for we had provisions with us, and MT. Lin kindly sent us rice, eggs and bread cooked in the railway station kitchen. That night we heard trains continually passing through, and peeping out we saw truckloads of revolutionary soldiers, packed like sheep, going to the front. They must have suffered terribly from the cold In spite of their wadded clothes and sheepskin coats. The next day we had to resign ourselves to remaining In our car for another night They were fighting at Man tz Kuan, and we were told it would be impossible for us to pass across the frontier into he province of Chihn as the railway lines were mined by both parties. | The station officials were evidently | very anxious to get rid of us and of tered either to send us back to Tai Yuen or find us lodging in a village close by. But we felt safer where we were, and preferred discomfort to un- mown danger.
 "The next day news came-irst ru- nored and then confrmed-that the army had been beaten. Soon trains loaded with them were aurrying back to Tai Yuen. There were many wounded, and we were .bIe to render some little assistance with bandages and simple remedies. There were closed wagons of dead, md we heard afterwards that the ,ebel losses had amounted to 500 men. As for the unhurt, they streamed back Ln day by train, trolley and on foot
 "Our MT. Lin, who had travelled up with the soldiers, now returned to us Tery crestfallen- He announced that hO imperial army would soon be com ng, and considering himself in posi- ion Of great danger prepared to ny