One of the members of our foreign community, Mr, Howes of the China Inland Mission was, however wounded by a bullet which passed through the front part of his two legs up near the thighs. He and Mr. Am also of the China Inland Mission were returning home when the trouble began and being turned back from one way tried another and finally tried to return to the place from which they had come. In this, attempt they got between two fires and a veritable hail of bullets were whizzing alt about them. They had. almost reached a place of safety when Mr. Howes wi They then succeeded in getting a small shopkeeper to take them in and they spent the night there on a door, no bed was available. The people the shop wore very kind to them Dut of course were not able to do much for them, and no medical ai could be secured until the high was over the next morning. Mr. Howes is a Canadian and came to China only last year. We had just been congratulating ourselves on fact that Luchow had been so qui for over @ gir when this came on ro unexpectedly. There were none of the rumours of wars which usually precede these affairs; this ime there not a breath of any {robo as Wo ery, was, suppose! fire there are fey rules which can be near bat in Chinas civil war-
followed. In Stoshuan at any rate what alliances there are are for salish personal reasons and ave easily broken if there is "an Advantage to be gained by 5 doing.
There has been some looting by the incoming soldiers from some of larly mean theft which has come to cur notice was that of a quilt from, off two children in a poor home. And yet the students met last night and Passed resolutions of welcome to the newcomer and said they were glad of the change because general Li had oppressed them and allowed them no liberty. Apparently a robber is better than an official who rules well in these days of freedom even in the eyes of the so-called intelligentsia, Li Bought Out The news comes to-day that general has been bought out by the Board of Trade and is now at their headquarters presumably waiting to see! what Lai Hsin-huei will be able to about the situation. Tt was fear-el yesterday that his life might be in "danger, in fact there was a rumour that his head had fallen.
Dr. Williams of the Canadian Mission who has just completed the new hospital here and opened it, left nue this week to go to Chungking to meet his bride, Bliss McKellar of Winnipeg, Canada, who has just arrived in Chungking. They will return to Luchow after their wedding and carry on the medical work of the Canadian Mission here,
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