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28th June, Another Account of the Boxer Tragedy.
On the night of the 18th, or r onthe morning of the 19th, a fearful tragedy occurred in the bounds of Tzeyanghsien, distant from that city place called '*T'ienkuch This is not ge. The farmers in Saechuan live on their farms, and as these are small it brings: houses often close together. At this country place the Methodist Episcopal Church bad a church with forty members and over 80 probationers, most of whom belong to the Wu family. A native preacher named Chu Chen-yuen stationed there, He was an twumarried, highly-respected man of about fifty year Some time after midnight of the 18th a band of Boxers swooped down on this church, brutally murdered the preacher, who refused. to flee though he had tive minutes' warning from a neighbour who heard the bind yg. His body was hacked, and head, hands and feet carried away, the church Duened, and eight of the neighbouring farm houses burned and six other persons killed. Over seventy persons are rendered homeless; nothing like this has ever happened to any Protestant church in the During the next day Boxers vations quarters and one of the many fortresses, or cities of refuge that abound in this part, were able for some days to defy the authorities. Troops were sent irom the capital under one Chen, who in the riots of 1895 put out the proclamation saying he had evidence the foreizuers were kidnapping children, and afterwards degevled for this. He is desirous of regal his rank. On the 20! wht, and the xers were driven from this fortress with in killed and captives. They taken refuge in fortress. The situation extremely. critical. The Grought is such as the oldest inhabitant does not remember its like. Rice will be only a third of a crop. The spring crops were failures. A slight rain has enabled the farmers in some districts to put out the sweet potatoes. With drowsht and impending famine the Boxers are multiplying rapidly, also bands of people in hundreds are roaming about seizing food when they can find it. The officials in some part are giving way to the lawless, others are riving to do their duty; but' the outlook is bad. Copious showers that would save
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