Between three and four o'clock on Sunday morning we were startled by the loud carspiesting combination of steam-whistle and long-continued shrieking of a singularly
and syren, which must have awakened every sleeper in the Concession. Tt was the Tsaopao, one of the Viceroy's steamers, just arrived with the dead bodies of the massacred missionaries. They had been handed over to her the previous evening at Wokungki, or Zanfung, a town at the mouth of the Sungpu river, about the same distance from Hankow as fro Sung-pu, namely 120 Ni.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.