Last summer a_ band of county "volunteers" who "protected" themselves by "Boxer" incantations caught and killed him.
The soldiers, always ready for any merit they can claim, cut off his head and hung the photograph in the city gates near by where it is still exposed.
The third brother has fled and turned priest.
Mei Yao, the present infamous leader, is preaching a kind of Bolshevism and will do anything, however cruel, for his own aggrandisement.
The pitiful sufferings of the whole countryside.cry out to heaven for relief. a On account of this man's training there is but one argument that will appeal to him, and that is the noose for him and his associates if he does not bring back the captives safely.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.