Throe shelly landed inside the! chapel of the convent but they rare spent. end rolled ut into Two others fell from the fraily into a group of the 200 re-fagees in the ground floor corridor. Not a single person was hurt, a8 there was no explosion. It soon became apparent that firing was being directed at the Institution, '88 no sooner would someone from the convent appear in the street outside than renewed firing would result.
On Tuesday morning the same cent existed after a night} made lurid by sounds of guerilla warfare and by the ved glare of burning Chapel. The milkiwoman, tone of the faithful servants of the institution, came early in the and a letter was entrusted to her, (o get assistance for the stricken institution. But the milk woman neither returned nor was heard from, and her fate was believed to have been like so many others during those two night-mare days, An attempt was made at 2 pin.' on Tuesday to leave the school, and of collectidren and servants, along with a few refugees to make' the trip. One sister] volunteered to take a small group of the younger children, numbering among. them many bibies only year old. An old woman who had been a faithful servant in the linen room of the convent wished to go with the party which started out only to be subjected to a rain of bullets from the neighbourhood. While the sister and children continued on their problematical escape, the old servant grew frightened and returned to the convent. Only a few yards hed been traversed even at that time, but as she turned back a bullet hit hier in the neck and she fell along side the wall of the school building, There she Tay until a coolie from the convent attempted to rescue her.
stooped to pick the old woman up, a shot caught him also and he crampied up, Other attempts were made to bring the two wounded back, but each attempt ended without success and it soon became only too apparent that the two were dead, and that snipers were on a careful lookout for any person who appeared outside the convent. The sister with her small charges arrived safely inside the Settlement, however, and thence went to St. Joseph's' Institution in Rue Montauban, The Change of Wind By this time the covered play= ground of the Inctitution was in flames and the buildings which were Joined together by the wooden Framework of the shed in jeopardy, Several time during the day the sisters. remarked that the wind changed, and the danger was avert for a time, This was, provid fa any' attempt to put the fire out was met by a fusilady om the encompassing snipers who appeared to be focusing on the cor vent. The refugees inside ever, declared thay the th less Wirceted against the institution as sach than an attempt to blow away the tops of the high buildings which were interfering with a longer range into Chapel. The fall-if shells on the root bore out this opinion, also, a At 5 pam. it was decided that the remaining students of the convent should be evacuated as by th the garden of the place ly open to marauders should any The surrounding Chinese houses which formed a sort of for the convent compound been burned to the ground. Counting sisters, children and sev vants a party of almost 350 prepared to depart. Some of them managed to traverse Jukong Road, and thence on to the Settlement.—Tt was impossible to pret riesha coolies, and ax many of the children were quite small and all frightened an almost insurmountable problem presented itself. Six of the si moreover, were unable to walk, Shortly after the first preparations were going forward inside the cone vent Father Jacquinot who had come to do whatever he could rescue the convent folk appeared. The work was greatly hastened and the evacuation carried out, With the exception of four sisters who went out to Siccawei Convent, all the children who had no homes to the imperialists,'
Southern army," ete, Eight of the principal propagandists of the Cantonese were chosen to make the speeches of the day and held the crowd throughout the rain until 1 o'clock in the afternoon, Their speeches were of the kind that might be expected—a general denunciation of the imperialists' and the militarists and a welcome to the Nationalists, "the defenders the working man."
At the conclusion of the meet-1g the workers were formed into Procession which marched along Paoshing Road to the North Station where it dispersed, probably on account of the drenching rain.
Among those who took an active part in the proceedings were noted narly employees of the Tramway companies of the Chinese city, International Settlement and French Concession as well as many postal employees, These were armed with inter- rifles and pistols and acted in the capacity of police, go to, and the sisters were lodged St. Joseph's Institntion where I they
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