The Archive · 1900

The Refugees from Shensi

The officials have sent two different escorts up to Chingtsekuan (on the chief mountain road to Hsian) to. meet and bring down the Evglish Baptist inissionaries feom Hsian. From which it is feared serious trouble of some kind has occurred in that province. A large part of the ancient city of Hsian is Manchu.

The telegraph clerks here are in the midst of a great rush of work. 200 messages per day pass through teand from the North, {tis a single wire only.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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