The soldiers are still busy in our district. A correspondent writes from Shih-fang, a city about 50 miles from Mienchow, "I came here yesterday in response to a letter from Mr. Wang (the evangelist) saying that soldiers had forced their way into our premises and behaved rather badly. They turned the Wang family out of their rooms and filled them with soldiers, They burnt some of the school desks and stole clothes, bed quilts, a lamp and other things." Here is a description from Tchyang, 70 miles from Mienchow: "At 6.15 in the morning of February 8 the city was captured by the sist regiment—the "Reds'—red paper on caps or foreheads (Bolshevists), great confusion everywhere." The writer then goes on to tell of the rush for the Mission House by refugees.
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