Twenty-five Years of Progress in the Model Province: The Model Tuchw A Great Statesman and Administrator:
Flourishing Ins\ tions: Promising Future Exactly 25 years ago, a depot tion of foreign officials and missionaries, of which the writer's father was one, proceeded to Taiyuanfu, the capital of Shansi, now universally) and deservedly known as the Model Provines, to investigate the massacre of over 60 European missionaries that took place on July 8, 1900, the memorable year of the Boxer out~ break. For once in their long and honourable history, the Shansi people, who represent probably the oldest civilized Chinese in this country, had disgraced themselves, allowing themselves to be led into taking action which they afterwards deeply and sincerely regretted.
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