The Rev. L. C. Osborn Backin Tientsin:-Enforced Stay The Rev, L, C. Osborn is glad to be back from his enforced. stay at Haichow, Chihli, and so is his wife and their many friends. He joined his waiting wife here at 17, Mimes Court, coming by way of Shangh and Tsingtao, It will be remembered that Mr.
Osborn, an Americun missionary, had been taken by the Kuomincham at Puchow, Shantung, and was made to drive to headquarters Haichow, Chihli, on the sume day, April 13. He was detained at Kai-chow till May 1, when he was released. He was held apparently, out of suspicion that he was a spy, but was not allowed to sce the com= mander in order to give an account of himself. It seems clear that the. untiring efforts put forth by the American authorities here and in Peking brought about Mr. Osborn! release, although he himself was not informed at the time that the military had been ordered to release him. As far as was known to hima, he was set at liberty on a written guarantee signed by a fw local Chinese friends, that he was. "not dangerous," a" correspondent me forms the "Peking and: Tientain 'Although a prisoner, ho was treated well, given two meals a day, from the Chinese oticers' kitchen, and slept on a Chinese wooden bed with only a thin straw mat over the wooden slats. As can be ima ined, with no change of clothing, and crowded conditions in a church, balcony for a home, together with many military men, Mr, Osborn did not remain entirely free from the usual unwelcome small inhabitants of crowded quarters in China, Chinese Christian church worker brought him milk from the cows left at Haichow by the missionaries who had evacuated that station early this year, The argument often advancodk against foreigners leaving the me terior at the wish of our govern. mental authorities received a beg when an officer told Mr, Osbi "Why are you here; do you not know that all foreigners were dored home last year?" Again on another occasion an influential per son of high rank in the Kuomine chun told Mr. Osborn, "You for-feigners ran away Inst your though we would kill you as a pack, of dogs."
Motors 120 Miles Across Country, to Kaifeng Without any pass or permit (he find eft his American passport at Chao cheng, Shantung, his mission stax on) Mr. Osborn sot out with his car to make the cross-country from Kaiehow. to Kuifeng, which he covered in two days, stopping overnight at Tungminghsien, a city just across the Yellow River south of Haichow, The entire trip made without incident. He had a warm welcome from the Christians at Tungminghsien, and passing Lanfeng, Honan, he arrived safely in Kaifeng, where he was kindly received by his American friend, the Rev. B, P. Asherafts of the Free Methodist Mission there.
Mr. Osborn negotiated a passport fat the Foreign Office, which he procured apon payment of $7, and went by rail via Hstichowfu to Shanshat at Hsuchow-fu he had @ 72 hours wait, but finally got away to Shang~ hai, 'The Rev, Osborn believes he has had sri invaluable experience, and he sees a new day dawn for China. Many hopeful signs there are, and some signs of this he saw in' road building and improvements in ties. Many of the officers he mot hho found to be men of clean habits and drunkenness was absent, There is an alertness among leaders that speaks for progress. He believes the new day is fraught with great possibilities for both good and evils The things for which missionurles have stood ate made slogans, stich as "Down Superstition" "Down with Pride," ete, However he wees two dangers:
One, fa the measures used, which are iconoclastic (temples. ore
the flings of the average cai Hals without any Teter Seman) and bat the false may go By We board. of superstition, all eligon
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