Evening journal., 1918-03-18

These men. were Of course. terror
stricken, but wien they went TO the
same man ai She head Of me railway.
he said De could do nothing 10 protect
them So. n their terror. two hundred
of Tifese men came here. broke through
our walls ana TOOK refuge in one of
our shelters nlled with women and chill
drcn.
soon the Southerners heard thar
they were here. and there were rumOrs
that if they would not give these men
up to them, the soldiers would burn
down our shelters II we sent the
men out they would surely be murder
ed; If we kept them we were endan-
gering The lives Of all on the compound.
For a while we were terribly anxious.
Karl interviewed the Southern leaders,
assuring them that these men were not
soldiers in disguise as they reported TO
be, and pointing ont 10 them that with
out the help OF these Northern railway
men The railway could not be SUCCESS
fully operated and advising il1i, iu-
stead Of killing them they ,h0uld pro-
iect them and pui them to work rum
ming a railway Tho officers seemed 10
see Che reas0nahiencss of this. and
promised 90 do an they could for the
protection of the poor fellows They
remained ON our compound until Tues
I day morning. when Karl escorted lhe
crowd of then over lo the railway and
SOME of them are nov a work running
trains between f0cl0v and Chnr-h1.
About 40 ocioe' llal awful sunday
night Hre agan br0tr oui in ihc main
part of the town. kirdlcd ihis time. wg
are told. by lhe -Wi,ltrners soon il
was raging more Nercey Than Hic nighi
before. for lhN 0Ieh there Dad been
no wind while 0u sunday niehl there
VIs quite % hieh wind. We are So
busy protecting our compound anl
lCoklus alter iho sounded that w'
could not spare lnl one 90 go anC
hsht the fire. ami ihe people of lhl
town did not make great effort lo DC
sos they seemed lu have lost ihell
heads entirely So ail nIghi we coult
see the flames raging
About midnight panic occurred
among the thousand women and chil
dren in our mat sheds They had some
how heard lhai llic soldiers had made
threat 90 burn tine place. so they al
wanted o. leave. 1hoy were finally per
-uaded 90 so into lhe church 'u ,oeni
. The night They moved 10 comparative
ly good order Al this time there was
terrible cracking Of rifles and raltul
of machine guns The soldiers SCENE,
io be 0ring just io ierrorize The people
and ihe hrlng as well as lhe. whols
sale rohbmg were kept up until Mon
day afternoon one of The victims o.
'he street shooting a girl shot lhrouel
ino chest was brought into the b0spii1
where She died TWO little girl babies
were born in the women hospital dur
InF the excitement Of the niehi
ITO add 90 our personal anyieiies
two OF our servants. the cook and hous'
boy are nortfernors. and live nesrb!
with their wives and families We ha,
o. take Them an into our house on
sunday and they ere still here Their
are besides ai least a dozen other Chin
csc living IN our basement.
81 shall never forget The terrors o.
ihat awful Suuda, night When day
, light came $50 breaihed more freely. bu
ON Monday morning we heard that lh
! Roman Catholic Mission compound h1l
p becn attacked. ono Wndred and twenl.
northern soldiers had been hiding lhor.
Those were captured some were khe
"a while trying TO escape The premise
' were sacked and looted Nlr Beck ha
been over there and says things az
n In awful shape Tho Spanish prizes
N charge escaped l0 the bone of on
y ~ his members When we heard Tia