Moukden is said to be ina stale of anarchy and the Governor-General _besieged in his Yamen; many people think this is simply a report intended to excuse his failure to protect the missions.
Here we are still alive and determined to sell our lives dearly in case of trouble amounting as we do to 150 volunteers including 58 Customs Chinese and about 30 Japanese—and having sent away most of our women and children, to Japan or further.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.