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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 277, 13 April 1911, Page 6

WOMAN WHO THRASHED SOLDIERS "At the time of the Russian occupation of Niuclnvang the Russians had been 'pacifying' the town, and a crowd of terrified Chinese had taken refuge in the Presbyterian Mission compound, where there was only one lady. She, however, came from Belfast, and had all the courage of the Northern Irish in her veins. A body of Russian soldiers came towards the mission with the intention of shooting the Chinese. She took a horsewhip in her hand, and, regardless of the loaded rifle or the bloody bayonet, commenced to belabor Mic soldiers with it. There are some tilings which are understood by all nations, and the Dae of the stockwhip was at once appreciated by the Russians, who lied before her, leaving her a victor, and the saviour of her Chinese friends. I know people say that women should not be exposed to tlia risks of a missionary's life, but the answer is that were women not employed half the mission work would be left undone." —From "Changing China," by the Rev. Lord William Gascoyne Cecil. WHO WROTE THE HEBREWS You cannot keep woman out of any profession, and at last, in the opinion of the most competent scholars, she has at-