of Truce In three-and-half hours the rescue the party operating under th truce yesterday managed to evacuate 260 civilians—mainly women and children, most of them half-starved from ruined, flaming, charred and: The party was! Jed by Major Hayley Bell and Father Jacquinot and. consisted of twelve Red Cross £0 ign Nuns and Chinese interpreter.
Mist Mary Bayley Bell accompanied her father.
There was no breaking of the truce. fat "no, man's land" it became apparent that, the Chinese troops were unprepared for Bel, Waving a Red. Cross a the apparition "of Major and ds party.
'Quick conversations with' the officers led to the discovery that, cly nome mischance or misunder standing, the nature of the truce! had not.
been explained. Word was, however, passed round and, in the opinion of the 1 party, they were never in any danger at the hands either Chinese or Tapanese true that shots were apparently fired at intervals, Some of them came from Chinese soldiers who were unaware of what wai hap-Dening and were snot aiming at anyone in particular, Some were tray, shots Idiers engaged in leaning their rifles in the negligent manner customary with the free: fand-easy Chinese army. Others—and they were quite a. few—were explosions of cartridges caught up in' the flames. of the -numerous Donfires. And there were bonfires the Japanese lines as well to give imilar explosions,
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