Twelve Boys Who "Lived Haystack" proved angle, lined the wall in combined dining-room and study hall of their new "home," The ackmowledged "Number One," at 1 spoke no English, but two of the youngsters dutifully: ping forward fro waiting politely to be questioned, A. month ago these children, in com pany with two more at the moment recuperating from the ordeal of vac ination, lived in a haystack behind the French Barracks in Route Pant Henry.
Ingeniously contrived, the idunnelled out of the hay was. the home of a series of waits, from Harbin, Peking, even Shanghai. Most of them orphans, with only distant relatives whose concern with their welfare was not native, Mews of the refuge travelled quick and when one boy left for a trip fo Nanking, Hankow, or Hongkong and Manila, another' drifted in to take his place.
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