All unsuspectingly the storm broke upon these scattered villages:
the plain, and left a trail disaster, horror and misery The writer has! been travelling in the district for the past 10 days and has} come back to headquarters sick fond depressed at the heartless, monstrous barbarity of these fiends in grey uniforms, who, by their disgraceful conduct, have forfeited eny respect and reputation they Jud earned by their spirited fence of Tientsin against heavy aids. It would perhaps Ynadvisable to tell all of what cone. hag seen or to mention James of places, where atrocious crimes have been committeed, which might, in this land where powerful militarists continue defy all law and justice,—bring] further suffering upon folk, whose cup of bitterness is already overflowing.
T have visited a score or more: villages, where, during three days and. nights of terror, successive hands of Li Ching-lin's soldiers broke into every house, prised open with their bayonets every box, removing all valuables, and carrying off quilts, clothes, shoes and indeed anything that took] their fancy, If money was not] immediately forthcoming, or _any Trotestations were made, in many! cases the owner was shot down afore the eyes of his panic-stricken family, and the hows completely ransacked in their insatiable thirst for dollars, generally hidden away in oad corners. 'The carlier _fugitives of course skimmed the cream and carried away their booty in any' curt they could lay their hands}
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