We are informed by Mr. A. C. Black, Treasurer of the English Baptist Mi sion, of the receipt last week of the following telegram from Shansi "Have received letter from Sanyuan stating that Sianfu is now open and all the missionaries are well.
The Sanyuan missionaries are now in Sianfu consult-
By the afternoon cartloads _of vegetables were rolling into the city whose people crowded around them with tears of joy streaming down their faces. military with funds exceeding, For more than a month the people of Sianfu have been dying of starva~ tion and cold at the rate of 500 a day, the figure occasionally exceeding' 1000 when the weather was more than usually severe.
Speaking of the foreign community's experiences, the despatches state that in spite of several foreign houses being hit by shells and peppered by bullets no one was injured though many had narrow'
According to a very conservative estimate there were between 15,000 and 20,000 deaths during the siege not including those killed by stray bullets and fragments of shells. escapes.
'The Mission Hospital rendered splendid service all through in spite' of the very heavy strain on th' doctors and nuts ickants and gentry of the city amidst great excitement. The news of their approach spread like wild-fire and soon the streets were full of men who had been in hiding for the last fow days. During yesterday most of Yang Sen's troops got on board various steamers and ift for up river or by land also for the west, chang had just with three trains, and the party I met reported having passed them near Pengpu. The Russian contingent has already gone forward.
Mr, Sokolsky has told us in his reports that in the Southern army fo Russ it situation, were equally glad tos him leave, taking horde of unruly so-called soldiers. The Northern soldiers who remained were formed into a protection brigade and the last two nights have been quiet. To-day I hear that all the Northern troops het have been taken over by the Southern army and things are] beginning to settle down: shops are re-opening and soon things will be normal. What the future has in ch restrictions. are in MI Cha Chung-army! wea sire the same us who fought, and were beat len by Marshal Sun Chuan-fang's men at Ku-cheng only a short year Jago. Reeuperated and re-outfitted and in good spirits they now set out to fight on his side. Such is war in the land of Sinim, Such is the flood of troops coming southward that there is not sufficient rolling stook for their transport by rail and they are being marched into Hsuchowfu on foot, store under the rule of the South remains to be seen.
Prisoners Perish
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