Amazing Tale of Desecration and Looting in Northern Honan: Villages Appreciate Stolen' Victrola transpired at certain stations of the United Church of Canada Mission, We published lost work "telegraphic, summary of what hes
in North. Hoo The mutter la of such vital interest. that we now Fepring the following detailed account from the "Peking and Tientain Times!
Ba After an exile of 15 months spent chidly in Peking and Tien-isin, a party of seven men recently visited the stations of the United Church of Canada Mission in North Honan, "They saw sights and had cexpericnees that they will not soon Forget, The two compounds at Changte they found fully occupied. The hospital compound is wrecked, but the other compound ly even now ix the proves of being looted and destroyed, writes, one of the party. Phe military jon made it very clear that they did not want riy foreigners about while they were ut work, Weihwei compound chairs, The walls were punched! full of holes, where pegs had been driven in, on vhich to hang equipment. The windows were almost all broken, and some frames and doors were smashed or missing. The foreign furnaces were ripped ope They evidently thought they might have been used to hide treasure.
Or perchance they thought they were sates. Of some 1,500 books left in the houses, not a single leat wis in evidence. "They had been torn up, and thea burned. Ib will require thousands of dollars to place and repair what a few soldiers have ruthlesslessly anu recklessly destroyed. was als occupied, and a woe leone sight it presented. The walls of the two burned buildings stood up stark against the sky; phe other residences stilt there was little left The compound itself did not present an attractive appearance. The foreign fruit trees and rose bushes, for which the compound was locally famous have been destroyed, and in their places are a series of mad stoves.
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