erther J. C, Burns Suffers from Hunger, Fatigue, Mlness and Brutality:
Released in November by bandits in Mgnchoukwo for carly ten month iris a pubghing Field Afar grein Slvshiom Society} AMT services of the China "Father, st moons the loss of my. essd, but Leann it kith sou. We must tense sou, The solders wre alter us and we do not "know our companions ave,. Fathers strength. isnot sulleient to go with us....We Seve no food with ws and Be will die of exposure... T do not want the Shen (Fathers to die. 1 believe Lire Shentu when he sys he has no nate Or me, We must rua. Tewe do Hol, the "soldiers will ill us, so we he Shentw can return home. the Shenfu to ask his God to protect me. [too do not want to die.
want, to 4 home and see ly old the words which the captain of the bandits addressed to me as flay on the ground in a wended hillside forthe tenth con the hist turned to me and said, appear over the hilltop.
ter, wee go home." For some time. perhaps several days just how Tong' T do mot recall—we wandered about the woods, with Strength and food insuficlent, cold dick (rom hunger and exposure, Seeking a path and hoping that we were going in the general direction of Tunghwa, 'The dawn' of Sunday found us on tae edge of the Cores, " footpath before us, Ax the sun set that day, we came to a hamlet of 20° or 30
Homes, our food down to a handful ne roasted corn, Here we inquired what town was at the foot of the hill before us and were toll it was five miles from where we further inquired whether Mere were any bundles. or soldiers between the hamlet and Liutaokou, Fearing lest we should meet either cared for by Officer Informed that there were neither suidiers nor bandits in the nelghbourhood and strengthened by the Knowledge nat help. was near, we Pushed on, arriving at the gales of the town at IL o'clock Sunday night, We were hailed by the sentey. 1 being unable to speak, panion, replied, "The 1 come. back," that Thad returne gould not open the ate. Wu's answer to die wa tell your superior ther is outside,"
Please "quickly amicer that the The sentry immediately informed the officer, who hurriedly came with nther soldiers, These, having mount td-the wall and nine certain. that we were alone, opened the smaller yale. One soldier came out and, ter searching uw for weapons, ade mitted me to the yard and brought fiw, to the eon who quickly: arose and came forwiird to Realizing that we were hungry, he issued orders to prepare some' food and brought us lo his private quarters, where he 'The sevend' day the buses and T lost for the time iny Wu, who was detained Guiestioning ws to the sao Tuna, rear by a group of those whom we had supposed to be peasants. Revolvers drawn, they" Immediately surrounded the carriage, asking who was, When informed that 1 was the Shenfu. from. Tungwo, they} quickly mounted the carriage and,
forward. taking the reins, beat' the horses Bandits' Mandy We came to the house where the: old couple were supposed to be Outside T could sce Wu leaning! against his bicycle, awaiting us, T motioned to him to'run, fearing that also might be taken, but, faithful companion that he was and seeing that' we were in the hands of bandits, he moved over in front of the cartioge. might mention that, on the morning of the sick call, I had just arisen from a sick bed.
When the carriage stopped, another group came from the house, sur-Founded us and Wu with drawn revolvers, searched us and took every thing we had....1 was placed on a sled which they" had. prepared and We again moved onward. Wu and Chin being forced to walk behind, The messenger who had come to the Mission was not bound and went on mis way unhindered. "I then reallzfed that the sick cal! was false.
Thay pushed on over field and the mountain passes until after sunset when we reached. their cabin.
'AL this time the bandits numbered fifteen, An hourly watch was established. Three men were chareed to guard me and the others 1 red. Tt could not have been o'clock that night when an alarm was iven that soldiers were in the Vicinity... They immediately _arose and ordered me to march onward with them. We pushed on in snow waist deep to the top of a mountain, where we spent the night until assured that the soldiers had withdrawn. We than returned to the cabin. While "some 1, exhatisted, cold the diers again appeared in' the vicinity, We went again to the mountain top. Wo spent that night sloping in the open in a heavy snow storm, With] the approach of dawn, the bandits conferred among themselves and ée-elded that they must move on. Tt being impossible here to proceed sled. Twas obliged to 0 on foot ten miles,
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