About 2 o'clock in the morning, Wednesday,' November 8th, the brigands suddenly turned up at Sinsien. After looting it most of the city was burned. The mission station was robbed and the American missionary Borg-Breen. carrie off. Hitherto, except in the case of Mrs, Soderstrom, the bandits had been satisfied to carry off foreign men. But at Sihsien a new precedent was set in that Rolf, the little five-year old son of the Borg-Breens wag carried off. It is reliably reported that the lad was not permitted to be with his father.
rs. Borg Breen has to-day, after a week of unspeakable suffering, arrived in Hankow, together with Miss Hjeldness, who was at the same station. Just after the bandits had departed Mrs. Borg-Breen writes:—'Sihsion has been looted by 5,000 robbers. Most of Sihsien is burned down, people are lying dead everywhere. My dear husband has been taken a prisoner by one robber band,- and another robber band has taken little Rolf away from us. I am ai_ broken-hearted woman. Miss Hjeldness and I are both so nervous, but we cannot get away as there are 20,000 robbers divided into three bandits.
Pray for us! Do not tell the children."
Two days later the city of Chengyanghsien was looted. The premises of the American Lutheran Mission did not escape, but fortunately the missionaries had been! warned and had left about a week earlier.
The American missionaries at Kuangchow, Kuangshan and Loshan have all left their stations and are safe. The British missionaries at Kuangchow, the Rev. and Mrs. H. J. Mason, Miss G. C. Davey, and Miss Poiner, left, their station on the November 6 and have wired that they will arrive in Hankow today after a long and
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