Three days after thy last forels departed there arrived in Kalgah a body of Boxers, 500 strong, ax had beea prodicted. The local" mandarinate Fos terror-stricken and the Governer 4 stupid enough to waloomo the troops in his official dress end ao give thont formal recognition. The Boxers being urns put in possession, Shen Tun-ho yoh made an attempt to save the property loft. behind by the foreigners. He caused their church and dwelling houses to b> placarded with Chinow: characters simaring that they had become " Chin for which' purposes they had seated The Boxera, however, not to be put off by this device and' burn} down everything, wreaking vong: the property for th" escape hoped-for victims. Some of the latter the tea merchant—baé moantine met with further harassment. On the waz to Urga they were beac by Mongolian peasant soldiery who rabhed them of 000 vases of tes.
An Army in Makioe:
'The Boxer leaders *ero furious at uke foreigners' flight and, making' e: xjuirice, discovered through #hom the informuation, which led up to their escape bat been given. They surrounded Shin Tun-ho's house and demanded of him to know where the foreigners had gone. '¥ they were not told, they *ould kill hin. Ta this extremity Shen resorted to a devperate measure. Them were in Kalgan at that time a number of Chine" horse dealers, who were covustomed 'o find their markets in Tientein and Shanghai who dressed in European clothes, acd
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