A Reuter message from Peking tells of the exciting experience of two American gentlemen who, whilst making a trip beyond the Great Wall, fell into the hands of the Peiyuan mutineers. The two foreigners were Professor W. E. Chamberlain, of the—Peking University, and Mr. C. A: Reed, who is studying agricultural cou: ditions in China on behalf of' the Government. They were making for a Trappist monastery at Yungping first of all, and this they reached safely. Proceeding on their journey they passed the Wall, and then learned that 400 of the Peiyuan mutineers had possession of neighbouring villages. Arriving at these villages, the two men and their party were first of all misdirected as to their route by the untineers, and then were halted by a party of men under command of one who was addressed as "General." The mutineers showed a very keen desire to possess themselves of Mr. Reed's field glasses, but after examining them without taking the trouble to focus the lenses, the "general" seemed to decide that they ought to be handed back. They were allowed to proceed on their journey, but that evening, as mute evidence of the treatment given by the mutineers to some of those who were unhappy enough to displease them, the party found a newly sealed coffin beside the road. A spot of ground near it was stained with blood, and on inquiry it was learned that the body within was that of one of three men who had been brought thither from a neighbouring village and shot in cold - blood.
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