Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-10-13
80 BANDITS IN CHINA ROB
BAPTIST MISSIONARIES
Secretary Love Makes Report
to Board al Annual
Session Here.
LOSSES AMOUNT no ABOUT $500
During fcnr Body Has l'ut sIGG. ouO
I'm Cash and SIUO.OUO in tIuthIn,. "a,
Disposal or Sufferers over In

Rev. c. j. Lowe. OF Kwcilin.
kwanEsi Province, China. ana four
other missionaries OF the Southern,
Baptist Convention. were recently Sc;
upon 10y IL band OF thirty robbers.
armed with. guns and swords, and
robbed Of all 'thcir cash and vai,iablcs.
amounting 10 about $500 Secretary
j, +. Love reported Ia the Foreign
Mission BOARD OF tho Southern Ban
tSt convention at its annual scs-
sion. which began here yesterday and
will continue today.
The missionaries were making tho
TRIP from Wuchow TO kwcilin by
houscboats and had anchored for the
night shortly after midnight they
heard the robbers approaching and.
suspcctinc their motive, cut loose
their boats and began drifting down
the river. The robbers then fired
upon the party, compelling the mis-
Sionarics To land No sooner had
they landed than the robbers relieved
Them of all their cash and other be-
l"nEinrs, after which the missionaries
continued their journey. The board
viii probably reimburse them for
their losses. but. due to the civil war
in Southern China. il is not likely
amy protest viii lac made to the Chi
nesc government
Year Unusually Successful.
The past year has been an unusu-
ally successful one in every phase
81 the boards work. Secretary Love
REPORTED y total OF scycnty-siX new
missionaries have been sent out dur
,nS the year. bringing the number
sent forth since The launching of the
." Million Campaign in May. 1919. 10
$50. .Nmd the results obtained hy the
workers have been equally gratifying.
While The board has greatly extended
It's operations within the past year
=, include much Of southern Europe
Ihcrin and the NrIr East. the older
established work is being CARED for
the same time the new work is
.I!;iuhed. la In" reports from Eu-
.ur" an unusually large number "r
,,SceSAions were reported from italy
ANA Emn!ania while probably lin"
most rapid advance * being made
III siberia. II is prohnbl" that soon
Dr. w l.. Class Of the North China
Mission. will l." transferred 10 ST.
heria to take SUPPLEMENTARY OF the
work there and in Manchuria.
During the past year the board pu;
Size oco in cash and 100000 in
clothing at tn" disposal OF the Suf-
fcrers in Central and Eastern Europe,
over and above its regular mission
AIRY expenditures. and $l60 600 IN
"ash was sent the famine sufferers
~. China
pr. T. y. Kay. associate secretary
~ the board, accompanied by his wife
and daughter. Is now on u tour OF the
mission fields in the Orient. and on
the earnest ana repeated petitions OF
he missionaries in tire various South
Nm~'!"nu fields tho board asked
Secretary Love to visit those fields
ucNt summer II the HON" Interests OF
the board ar. such as Ia permit his
'h"Hucc at tn:, time.
Nrm Nrw Missionaries.
s'v'r1l new missionaries were
'rmed by tn" ,"ard yesterday. though
u majority Of liz" workers az" gen.
cal. nan,d at the Iun' m,ot:n-s
-N-sir'dsE's apppirtat- Included Ecv.
AMI }irs. \. u iMn'i. o.: Winston
Ss'"ut. y -. WHO VIVA do cdu,ntlnnnl
~ :1i AT Euenrs Ares. Arg.,!iin.:
Ms Paari Todd uf N;,'dnsia. ga
who VIII 20 "a 'rrio". CHINA: Miss
Eurice Allen. OF I.atta. : g. Who
s. II j." assigned "a Bahia. Brazil: W.
T.. Hines "f Tampa. Fla. WHO Nil ln
ih" architectural work for tho board
ln china and who is the first archi-
,""irral missionary ever sent out ny
the board; Miss Pearl Duustan. OF
I"rto Allegro Rra~il, who is the
daughter OF missionaries at tina, sta
ton. and Dr. and Mrs. e ". Hayes.
:"f Canton. Cl.ina. who. will Sic m,di-
1al work at that station