Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-22
MISSIONARIES TELL
OF FLEEING MODS
Refugees Pour Into Shanghai
With Tales of Escapes From
Turbulent Interior.
BY PAUL WRIGHT
BY Gable To The star and Chicago ID
News. Copyright. 1927.

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SHANGHAI, January 22.-Niissiou.
aries arriving at Shanghai on every
ship from up river bring stirring tales
of escapes from Chinese mObs at vaIi
Gus points in the interior of China.
One of the most thrilling Of these ac-
counts is told by Rev. \ G. Simon ot
the Wesleyan Mission at Tayeh. i'm
Hupeh Province.
Four persons were driven from the
mission at II 'o'clocz New Year night
by mob of students and local bad
characters who had been excited
against the British at an auti-foreign
meeting that day. They broke in with
an ak. wrecked the mission with coolir
poles and brickbats and looted ami
deSpoiled the premises. While the mob
was coming i'm the front way, Simon
with three foreign women. escaped br
way of the rear. He was locking the
gate when the mob discovered them
Hide in Boats.
Simon was struck by bricks. his
wife was hit on the head with Il pole
Though she was stunned by the blow.
which caused a slight fracture Of the
skull, she went on. All were insult.
ticiently clad. y Miss Booth lost thu
others in the excitement. and hid IN
the bushes all night, eventually. how
ever reaching Shanghai The rest OF
the party wandered t,a fields and the
lake shore until dawn to escape the
bowling mob
At daylight a Roman Catholic
Chinese fed them. This was SUNDAY
morning. From then until Thursday
they were hiding in boats on the lake
and river, where they were detained
by the local Kuomintang commando.
They were taken back to Tayeh by
the village magistrg-e, who rescued
them by transporting them on a rail
way handcar 10 the Yangtze.
Mission Is Wrecked.
The Tayeh Mission was British.
though Miss Anderson, one of the fu-
gitives. is from Denmark. The party
boarded a Japanese steamer at Hwang-
Shi-Chang, Two Catholic priests at
the place had to move out, as had
two other priests at Tayeh, whose
mission was wrecked by nlobs.
Simon's group lost all sheir clothes
at'Tayeh except one box. The looting
was later stopped by thu local magis-
trate.
DIR. f. J. Tooker OK Los Gatos.
Calf, a member of the American
Presbyterian Mission North, is now
at Shanghai He was one of tn Sc
who escaped from Kulihg, leaving all
their baggage and other possessions
there but a suit case apiece. They
passed through Killing without
trouble at midnight, escorted by the
American consul, Mr., Paxton. from
Marking, with a guard of Chinese
police. The usual fight occurred at
the waters edge, when coolies de
manded eXorbitant sums to get them
n Gte TOvs FTColyars
Eugene Chen, Cantonese foreign
minister, promised to protect all prop
erty at Kuling and seal the foreign
houses.
British Suffer Worse.
Rev. +. III. Livesley of the Wesleyan
British Mission tells how his party
| escaped from WI sub safely, but
| coolies at the waters edge demanded
| SAC for handling a suit case. forbidd-
ing the foreigners to carry their own
| impedimenta.
Shanghai is filling up with refugees.
but so far is housing all in safety
and comfort. Missionary houses are
crowded and other quarters are i'm
pePatively needed. Local women's
clubs are collecting and distributing
clothes to refugees. especially to mis-
! sionaries expelled by mObs from their
interior stations.
So far British have suffered worse
than Americans. However, Methodist
headquarters today received word that
the American consul at Foochow
(Fukien Province. south China) had
called in Americans, and that women
and children are leaving for Manila.
telegram which was three DAYS in
transmission from Chungking (Sze.
chuan Province) says that nine Amer
lean Methodist missionaries with eight
children have left for Shanghai
Louise Hammond, after a visit 10
Shanghai TO see her mother, returned
u few days ago to Marking.