'The escape' teacher was riding on a horse given him by Mr. Atwood, but the soldiers compelled him to dismount and ride on the eat. Ere long he overheard suspicio.s remarks by the soldiers, who were very rude; from these he gathered that mischief was meant, and on the advice of one soldier escaped from the party " few miles from the villags of K'aishit. Tue perty was supposed to be going to Pingyao, about thirty miles from Fenchoufu. "The teacher when u far away onfthe line of his escape, heard the firing of a gun. He afterwards heard that this was the signal for the attack upon the whole party. They were escorted by the soldiers to the village of K'aishih, as mentioned above, and at the given signal both companies of solitiers rushed on the helpless victims and cut them down mercil: ssly with their swords. Their bodies were then stripped and all burned together in a line by the road side.
No such awful summary of deliberate wholeswde massiere by Government order has been known within the century. The Prefect added one more atrocity. The poor dispenser was rearrested, and given another Christian members, with the view of ferreting them out and Killing them,
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