The Archive · 1900

GRAVES VIOLATED: MISSIONS DESTROYED

Two other missionaries died of fatigue and hardship on the way to Urga. Fifteen have arrived safely there. They were conducted by a Mongol escort, and the Russian Consulate reports their safe arrival, as also that #ll their stations are destroyed, the principal residence transformed into a Iamasery, the graves of the missionaries all violated and their ashes scattered to the winds. That is in Western Mongolia. In Eestern Mongolia Irundreds of Christians are killed and missions des-troved. Many missionaries remain besieged.

Thus of the whole Belgiom Mission of,,,110 There are known to be dead. 9 There are known to be in so Nothing whatever is known of.

There ate known to be at their posts Of these latter it can only be said as yet that they aro—in Mongolia!

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