Further interesting details of some of the atrocities committed against the foreigners, principally missionaries, in Foochow by bandit soldiers who carried the emblem the 17th Army, and an enraged mob, were brought to Shanghai on Monday by Mrs. H.D. Matthews, Jwhose husband is superintendent of the Church Missionary Society Hospital. Mrs. Matthews arrival on Monday evening in the I.-C. S. Yusang.
airs. Matthews, herself, had her seized from her fingers soldiers while threatened by others who pointed their knives at her, jas much as to say, "If you don't give us the rings, your fingers will cut off." Mra. "BMatthews was men. At the Anglo-Chinese Girls' School the soldiers attacked a for-feign nurse and foreign school teacher and with their "knives cut the women's outer garments to icees, the ing and tearing most of the remaining clothing from their bodies. The women left the house with the bandits in pur-'They were finally rescued by friendly soldiers and escorted to safety amid the curses and epithets lof the mob,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.
