SAVED FROM BEING MURDERED
CHINESE MISSIONARIES ESCAPE; MOB LOOT AND BURN HOUSES By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. Australian and New Zealand Cable Association. (Received November 14, 5.5 p.m.) PEKING, November 12. After living several days in a native boat with rice as the only article of food, and in constant fear of being murdered by angry mobs who pursued them along the river banks, the entire missionary staff from Liuyang, in Hunan province, who fled in response to entreaties by Chinese converts who knew of the intentions of the mob to murder all foreigners, finally reached safety. The majority were scantily clad, they having lost everything. The students who were responsible for the uprising, whic his a protest against the Wanhsien affair, were angered when they found the missionaries had fled. The mob then looted, burned the homes and missions and traded the properties, including huge quantities of oil. Two lady missionaries, who were captured at Changteh in October and kept in an exposed condition, have now been released.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12604, 15 November 1926, Page 7
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167SAVED FROM BEING MURDERED New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12604, 15 November 1926, Page 7
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