"The other" refer the terror which stalls missier fand peasant alike in the area now occupied by the "Soviet Republic of 81 and Szechuun," the headquarters of which are "Lenin Hall." once the church where both women worshipped for almost a decade, atter bbullding mission station about it, It was in December, 1982, that the came over the border Szechuan, and took the city of Tons Kiang. That spot was one of the major centres in the "Three District" over which Miss mission station they had _deserteq was in the hands of the Reds before the refugees arrived at Paoning. 'There, every one was panic-stricken, for word had come that missionaries were being hunted through city. town, and' country. Whoever was reported to have aided them was beaten cruelly. The women and] their charges rested a fortnight. when again the Reds were on the march. This time,—sampans were commandeered by' the military, and the party, now increased to. sever foreigners' and about thirty Chinese Christians, made for Shunking boat. For five days they travelled and waited at Shunking until it ws established that the Reds had retreated. This report was at rst subject to doubt, for the Reds; seems, have a peculiar habit of retreating, to give the Governmeni troops the impression that fear has driven them to it" The military follow, and, swift as Fate, the Reds execute a flanking movement, cutting the military off from aid, surrounding them, and at once killing the officers. The soldiers have the choice of service in the Red army or death, was true. Pochow had been eft—and so back over the trail the two missionaries and the pastor went, proposing to resume their work. Only when they enterad_the compound. a shambles of indeserib. able "filth, did they appreciate whol had. escaped. Every scrap had been taken for ammuni-awry. Even the kitchen stove was divested of parts Floors were torn up. An officer in command of Government forces tool the women the rear of what had and showed them a shallow square pit In it, he said, there were buried between thirty' and forty children—sons and daughters of families who had had too much land' to make! food Red converts,
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