Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Bly and five children, the youngest only five weeks old, were foreed to live for six days and nights in a dark and dirty coal bin, while bullet being shot through the hou them from three different directions.
Together with them were Mr, and Mrs, Palmer Anderson and their litle daughter, They were rescued by a party under the leadership Dr. Skinsnes, and on February 17 they got away from Hsinyang in the! midst of a very heavy bombardment} together Mrs. Skinsnes and three children, and Sisters Hilda Patterson and' Clara Kravig. The ther foreign women and children had already got out as they were ving in other parts of the suburbs. Mr. Sovik and Mr. Messe have returned and are at' the station near} the South Gute. Mr. Bly is staying with Dr, Skinsnes. In the are seven Catholic missionaries.
The 50,000 Chinese civilians" in the, city are suffering from lack of food, sickness, and from fear of the! shooting over the wall and the! brutality of the soldiers within, They have not been permited to go cut.
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