The very first rising Miss [Laurence remembers, however, took place only only the year after she arrived in China, when 19 young women, Catholic missionaries, were murdered in Shantung. An echo of the rising, which was ch{ly direct ed against Catholics was felt in Ningpo, where Miss Laurence passed the first 17 years of her sojourn in China, and during the whole of one day crowds surged up and down in front of the missionaries' houses, shouting "Kill, Kill, kill the Red Bristle." and constantly Mise Laurence was greeted on the streets next day, with a surprised, "You fare still here. T was afraid it was to have been last night."
During all these former troubles Miss Laurence, who some years since retired and now spends most of her time translating well-known English and American stories into Chinese (for she is a brilliant Chinese scholar), remained at her ation, but this time it was felt she must leave, It was last Taos day the onder to go arrived: News was brought in that Sun Chuanfang had had a heavy reverse and the hospitals were full of wounded. At ten o'clock this information was brought to Miss Laurence among others and taking the. advice that was pressed nyon her, she left for j Shanghai by the two clock train, Later, however, it transpired that two parties of Sun's men marching about in the dark had mistaken each other for a contingent of Reds and had held a pitched battle, Hart the Beloved During her time Miss Laurence has met many interesting people and chief among these was Sit Robert Hart, for whom she hae strong admiration. The Chinese really loved him she thought, as they have dono few others and when he finally died they were genuinely sorry.
Miss Laurence will leave Shanghai again to-day for Jo will stay with friends until "China has come to her senses" when she hopes to return for, having spent over 66 years in this country she feels it a great strain to be forced to leave now. Definitely she does not want to go but like many others, having somewhere she can go outside China, she feels she ought to leave the room she occupies in Shanghai for others, less fortunate, who will be shortly arriving from the interior. fous effects wore noted in the community during the noon hour when the quakes actually occurred, In several of the high buildings along the Bund the swaying was strongly marked. In the offices of the orth-China Daily News" blinds swung out from the windows, lamp pendants swayed, seemingly' in north and south direction, but, nothing displaced. An office! chair, with castors, was. described by its occupant to have travelled an inch or two backwards and forwards for what appeared to be eight or 10 seconds, Less noticeable wore the anakes to the occupants ground floors, but even here the sensation was one of a definite tilting forward and backward during which rattling of such articles in the roo'a as metal boxes and the lids of jars was plainly. to be heard. One person who was travelling upwards in fa Kit at the exact moment of the second quake experienced" nothing. Stepping out on the floot of "his destination, he' was greeted by the fact' that another tremor Had just In'the'bar at French Club] where tha usual convivial holiday gathering was in full swing, pictures are were observed rocking on the walls sand wi lo not trusting entirely to Jules Michelet and the U. S. Pittsburgh, who declared that no-{thing out of the way was observed! Jand that the first indication of any} [seismic disturbance came from shore reports. The captain of one passenger vessel, however, when told by visitor from shore that distinct Jquakes had been felt, exclaimed turning to one of his officers, "There, told, you we had an earthquake," [which would indicate that something was apparent to the observant the river as well.
'A resident in the western district of Siccawei declared that he had heard a roaring which seemed to accompany the first quake which. bore no similarity to a other sound which he personally had ever sheard.
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