The day before they left, they had the unique pleasure of seeing Mr. Grifliths and and child (11 months old) and Me. Brown of the C. I, $M. turn up at the Field Hospital at Paotingfu. 'The Griffiths' party had had hardships and privations looking for the Greens at Huolu and wandered as persecuted Soutcasts until they were taken in by the French bishop, priests, and five railway engineers at Chén-li-fu, who treated them kindly and protected them in the cathedral, which they had made ready to resist a siege, until they were all rescued by the French from Paotingfu, and Mr. and Mrs. Griffiths and party Drought to that place by rail in safety.
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