Mr. Penniston motioned to the policemen to move but instead one of them put his foot in front of one of the wheels of the baby-carriage and stopped the party. Mr. Penniston protested to the Chinese police and a he did so, the policemen threaten fed him with'their rifles. At the same lime Mrs. Peoniston Is reported to have said something to the police, whereupon one of them slapped her in the. face." The "American then rushed to his wife's ald but he was Pushed away by the rifes of the police white at the same time Ris wife was "struck with the rifle butts wielded by the policemen,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.