The Presbyterian Mission, situ ed just outside the West Gate will also carry over some memories, Ths! usual rush for foreign protection was made but this time it exceeded anything in all our history, 'The! hospital, boys school, and even our private yards have' been literally inundated. It was impossible to turn the women away or even to keep the men out, but by dint of] struggling we have managed to get rid of those who were only trying t0 escape impressment as coolies—lat is to some degree. We have at present on our hands probably no less than 1,500, almost entirely from the more respectable classes as they seem to be able to feed themselves without diffeulty.
'And just five months ago at the doors of this very hospital the agitators were preaching the gospel of hate: don't work for the' foreign, don't sell to the foreigner, don't go to school to the foreigner," ete. If, we could take 2 vote of; the entire city tonight we venture would be unanimously in favour!
the foreigner retaining his extraterritoriality from this time henceforth and: for ever! And could the same vote make, the whole fereased in volume and violence and any one would have thought that the fate of the nation was being settled right then and there, but was quiet for the remainder of the night except for a few stray} shots now and then. Word was brought in that the Fengtien troops had been driven back to the north alway station and were leaving'
defeat but daylight proved the report incorrect.
The most reliable witnesses testify that nearly all of the firing was done by the Fengtien forces, and that the reply from the forces supposed to be those of Bei Bao-san quite inconsequential. Up to date we have been able to verify only one casualty among the fighting forces, a small officer being kill.
on the Feng side. Two bystanders have become victims. A man carrying a child was killed and the child mortally wounded, nutly by the same bullet which passed through the child's abdomen.
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