The Guild opened i session a fortnight ago with. a Social Gath commenced on Wednesday its serious business with 'a lecture by Dr. Gilbert Reid entitled "Some Boxers I have known," Manj' have survived. who have known Boxers a distance: but Dr.
Roid has survived after personal acquaintance with some of them. The ever-notorious and infamous Yd Hsien, he intorviewed before that worthy high and first-class-buttoned mandarin left Poking {for Paotingfu, where. w the first of thirty-ud children.
3 lad hoped to induce him to make friends with the foreigners. The result, how: encouraging. Another Boxer he knew was the extortioner Kang Yi Dr. Reid made the an filled the Hall feel something of the weirdness, creepiness, uncanniness of the whole atmosphere up north during the worst days of the outbreak. It was as if 80,000,000 of people -had become possessed by evil spirits; th ed a demonic look: astly cries joreing the night made the stoutest ake, It was one of the most powerful lectures ever given in Shanghai.
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