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hanging almost to the ground. Each
carried a rifle and revolver. About
five or six men pointed their rifles
at myself and Rev. George Holm, an
American, and demanded silver
money, our other valuables, and that
we give them our guns and revolvers.
Mr.. Holm had no weapons and had
only one revolver, which 1 gave up.
Then they took Mr.. Holm captive
and went away with him. Later fif-
teen or twenty more bandits ap-
peared, demanding silver, and, be-
cause we did not have any, took me
| prisoner. They demanded twenty
rifles of me, but of course l had none.
Then they insisted that l manufacture
rifles, as / was foreigner, and
therefore able to do so.
Families Disappear.
ION the 9th the robbers allowed
me to go back to the mission station
to secure food for my wife and chill
dren, but upon arrival at the station
/ could find no trace of my family.
/ did, however, meet MIR. Holm, who
also had secured permission from his
captors to return and look after his
family.
Everything in the mission had
been destroyed. and all food. cloth
| lilB anu IHpNdDleS Httu DStu hlpltn
Mr.. Holm and | went into the
streets to try to find our families,
but our search was fruitless.
'At this time, the Chinese troops,
which had arrived at Tsayong, started
to attack the robbers by firing from
outside the city walls. The shots
| whistled through the streets in
which we were, SCATTERING up against
the buildings. This alarmed tho rob-
bers, who Immediately started for
another part of the city. We took
advantage of the opportunity to make
our escape and fled to an old Chinese
house, which at that moment was
vacant.
I'VE ran into a side room and hid
ourselves in pile of old wheat straw.
No sooner were we concealed than
the robbers came and began their
search for us. They pulled the straw
about, jumped on top of 1t and ran
their bayonets through 1t time and
again. The bayonets just missed my
| legs.
"For four days the robbers lived in
the same house, in a room opposite
to u.s. For three days and nights we
We're without water and food. We
hardly slept for eleven days and
nights, for the robbers were all that
time in the same house, most of the
time in an adjoining ROOM
Didn't Dare Move for 3 Days.
"They were smoking opium and we
frequently heard them say that when
they caught us they would kill us.
The only time we could move a mus
Gle was when pig moved about,
rustling the straw In which we were
hidden, or when the rats scampered
through it. We were almost choked
with the dust in the straw, and suf-
/ fered from the burning in our throats,
noses and eyes. | chewed on my
4 handkerchief for half a day in an
attempt to moisten my mouth. When
could stand it no longer crawled
out of the straw in the night and
CROPPED about until | found about a
cup fun of water, which / drank with
eagerness. 1t was dirty water left in
washtub, but it revived me and my
heart began to work better.
The nights of October 4. and 6
] the robbers tried to escape from the
city and pass the troops, but were
driven back. October they man
aged to get by the Nangyangfu
troops, who did not do their duty.
About four hundred of the rob-
bers were killed in Tsaoyang. They
murdered no less than two thousand
people in the city.
! ON the morning of October I, Wang
took Mr.. Holm's card to his wife,
who had already returned from the
Yamen to the mission station, and
as soon as she answered we went
back to the station. The adviser to
White Wolf had assisted the women
! inasmuch as he did not allow the
| robbers to go into the Yamen and do
them harm. A native of Tsaoyang,
! who was in the Yamen. gave them
food"