Reminiscences of the Storming in Boxer Rebellion Washington, Apr. 26.
The storming of Tientsin by the Weigh Fusili Marines during the Boxer rebellion iwas recalled, by a colourful cere-many at the dinner this evening of the Gridiron Club, an organization of Washington newspaper correspondents, og which' Mr. Hoover, the ident of the United States, and Ronald Lindsay, the newly ap-Pointed British Ambassador to Wothington, were the guests of granted them an audience, at which pre the leader of the expedition with a ort of a wand, a holy relic. Though the women -had begged their way all through their Jong pilgrimage, they realized the value of the wand and refused to part with it th Of a kind of hard black wood not unlike ebony, the wand is about 5 ft. 6 in. in length and it is erooklike the bough of a tree. It is most beautifully carved, every piece being like mosaic, whilst the eyes of the animals and men are of solid Chiennan and Dingnan.' There are 8 fow missionary ladies there, and we trust they will be able to get]
by Kuangtung. All communieaus are of course cut of All the surrounding hsiens are|Hear of two men in the hut was effected.
The vengeance of the communists is shown in yet another instance Which has occurred here, The story, begins at the Kao family village the city of Huangpei, a city disturbed; peace is foreign to the Well-known for months past as a, district just now, and business. is [communist centre, A scholar living dead, hundreds of boats loaded with merchandise are still at Kian and cannot xet up to Kanchow,
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