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to escape to-morrow, but he has the river. We had purposely . been over to his house and found avoided that place, and made our that the looters have been at work way from point to point as clr- there, and so we are going to stick cumstances roomed to Indicate.) It another day whilst he tries to We can hear the sound of gun-fire their arms and. only a palm leaf board his windows and doors up, from Wuchang even here. South- fan to protect them from the hot and then all going well we will ern soldiers have passed through Probably it means to many of make an attempt on Monday, here to Wuchanghaien, but none them certain death, and we can do Sunday, September 5-Duff is are here at present. The local nothing. 6 p.m.-Duff and I took at work in his house. Bonsall is people fear bandits (Northern de- a walk into the school after tea reading and I am writing. I enn sortera), so at night they have, lan- and looked around. A dozen or not understand all this. The sun terns hung along all the streets, more students are still here, but is shining beautifully, the butter and a guard consisting of one man say they are going off into the flies are enjoying themselves on from each household marches country soon if their food supply the flowers on the steps of the around the town at Intervals dur- fails. The Chinese teachers and house here, and yet all around sing the night carrying fearsome families are in the science room. the fearful noise of a terrific looking spikes and spears.
the side of the 'Reds."
reach
.I was!
1
In the Mud.
This
Tuesday, September 7-Rising at daybreak was not difficult after auch a sleepless night as we had, and after a little to eat and some
the bank
of the
The new building seems safe as battle. One does not know what it place is not far from the river there is no bullet mark to be seen all means, but it is certainly not bank, but no ateamers call here. on it, in the lower floor, aven at the will of God. If people at home The nearest place is Huangchow, the western end (which is very inly realised-I wonder what they, which is on the other side of the ear the firing line). It is report would do? Would they pray for river and 30 miles further down. ed that a spy had been Into the China? Would they try to help? Sampans will not leave here, fear- (city and ascertained that food and Shella are coming over and one has in either the Northerners. who ammunition is brought over from burst just on the roof of the new hold the further bank, or the Ilanyank, but that General Liu Norma! School building. I have Southerners, who are in force at Tso-lung has stated that he will been over there twice with Mr. Wuchanghsion (nearly opposite). prevent further supplies entering Dixon, and once as I went across
Ch'in Lin, one of the Wesley ser Wuchang, and he has gone ever to the pathway a bullet struck avants, whose home is across the branch of a tree near my loft carriver from here, since he cannot Disturbed Slumbers.
It was a lucky escape.
cross, has offered to come with us We have also heard that nine standing in the door talking to and carry our baggage for the sake students who showed favour with one of the servants this morning of his rice and travel expenses. the Red Army have had their and another bullet came through
We gladly took advantage of this Office:-231, Queen's Road Central, 2nd floor. Tel. Central 2530.heads 'chopped off and thrown out- the shutter and hit the wall by meand expensive, while our money is offer as carriers are difficult to get. side the gate.of the city by the I stooped down and picked it up! northern soldiers inside. It looks and it is now a souvenir. Another limited. as though the "Reds" will try and been writing this. God lakes care six inches and I might not have starve. Wuchang to surrender. Bonsall's servant
We have all felt is! made up his of His own. mind to leave to-day and try and presence.
Hankow by ០ eircuitous Short Food Supplies, route. We hurriedly, wrote notes Monday, September 6.--After tea, we started out at G a.m. to be delivered in Hankow, but five days of bombardment and Duff forgot to bring along a few were disappointed when he return- isolation from the outside world, andwiches we had brought from ed in about half an hour to say Duff and I decided to make an at-į
Wesley, but after walking ten the soldiers had sent him back and tempt to get away from here and miles along the road we stopped would not let him pass. Our own carry news of our situation, ea-for some mien at a dirty Chinese hopes of making similar exit pecially as supplies of food had street shop the best we could do dropped. Just as last night, heavy run short. We arose at daylight under the circumstances. The sun firing commenced at 6p.m., but this morning and made our pre-is hotter to-day, but a light breeze this time continued late into the parations to leave. Our breakfast helps to keep us going. At noon night. Half-a-dozen shrapnel consisted of oatmeal and porridge, we stopped at a muddy creek which shells burst over or near our house The shelling has stopped, and four we were crossing, and went in for and sent their hail of bulleta on of the students whose homes were dip in spite of the fact that we to our roof, or among the trees. in Chicow turned up to join us were minus bathing costumes. It We keep mostly on Dixon's veran- Mr. Chapman introduced us to was wet and warm and shallow, but dah now, and feel more confident the Red officer in charge, but he we were able to sit in the mud for of our safety as we gain experi- refused to accept any responsibility a little time, and felt all the bet- Jence of the possibilities and for Duff and I, but gave the four ter for the dip. The students are limitations of the projectiles we students a pass through to Chi-making slower time to-day as they are getting. We went to bed early chow. He was having his break are carrying their own things and អ usual expecting things to fast at the time, and we had to are tired. In the afternoon aur quieten down before long, but wait until he had finished, which road followed lively battle continued. We dozed delayed our start until 8.30. He Yangtaze for several miles and we and wakened until we were all terrified by the crash of a shrapnel and wires for telephonic communia flooded
had a field telephone in his room could not resist another swim in shell bursting, seemingly right on cation are strung all along the water has not yet recoded.
area from which the top of us. We slept in our clothes roads out to near Tsco Tao-ch'ien surface water was soupy warm, but The last night, but this night Duff and (the Viceroy's - Well). Travelling underneath it II ventured to take our trousers off. as light as possible, carrying, the cool, and we spent half-an-hour in was refreshingly We weren't long in getting them few Indispensables in kit-bags and great glee, and felt revived again. on again though and out on the dressing as inconspicuously as we A little further on we stopped for verandah, where we certainly feel could, even to the covering of our another bowl of tea at a more comfortable behind the brick white topees,
place pillars: Dull lay down in the ditch the north of the Hung San. By able to get a sampan we should we get off around where in the event of being un- just in front of the verandah, village just onst of the compound, have to make a long detour Inland whilst Bonsall sat behind a pillar two almost naked corpses lay in to avoid flooded country. Inquiries and Dixon and I feeling tired went the open (killed no doubt by a for a sampan gave little encour in and lay down again, Duff stay-shell) and a few days of hot Sep-agement, but Ch'in Lin, the ser ed in the ditch. for about an hour tember sun had brought them to avant, telling a pitiful story of our and then came back with Bonsall. state best left undescribed. Shell fire at night is worse than went on at a smart pace, not stop cited the sympathy of an old boat- We sufferings and lack of money, ex-1 by day. If we are indoors there ping until we reached the Viceroy's man who consented to row us to is a sense of confinement and Well at about 10 o'clock. People our destination for 2,000 thoughts of the building falling on are still living in their villages (about 23.). His only worry was top of us, or a shell (dud though round the Hung San, but keep in that the soldiers, might require his it may be coming in through the doors and neglect their fields services and prevent him getting wall. About a quarter to eleven Beyond the Viceroy's Well the back, but we gave him our card as all firing suddenly ceased and we farmers are working as usual, and a passport and that satisfied him. could hear distant shouts and many coolies are on the road carry. The students, who had caught up cheers as of men making an aging rice, vegetables, meat, chicken to us while we were delayed in sault upon the wall. We listened etc. to the soldiers, who buy every the water, gave us their baggage, with bated breath and a thrill ran thing at a good price. Soldiers are and two of them who were getting through us as we thought of the quartered in all the villages round along worse than the others came scene being enacted at that mo- about here, and the largest temple on the boat with us. ment. Alas for the brave Dare-to- is a base hospital with a Red Cross reached Wuchanghsien a "Red" sol- When we Dies, for in a couple of minutes flag flying in front of it, but many dler met us at the bank with fix- shots again began to ring out, and slightly-wounded men soon the firing was as strong as
seened bayonet and made a nominal ever before and continued so until this point we went
among the other soldiers. From inspection of our goods and on more le chattels, but, thank goodness, did after midnight, whilst we went out surely, and stopped frequently at not obstruct us. Plenty of other side and watched the dashing of ten houses for refreshment until soldiers were in evidenca, and we the gun and the bursting shells. This is not possible in day-time, home of a former Wesley student passing the city gates. Here again we reached Huang Chia Tien,, the had to pass a further inspection on of course, but at night-time it His elder brother welcomed us and we went to the Swedish mission causes second or two of tense regaled us with tea and a bowl of chapel, where we gave the preach- suspense between the flash and the mien and egge each, for which helor Wang Hsien-sen Mr. Liu's card, report and arrival of the shell. would accept no payment. All these shells are just like Bri-
Heres who treated us with the same hos- we were able to engage a carrier pitality we hul received elsewhere, tlah 18-pounders, about three
for 4,000 cash (about 38. Od.) to We had travelled another 30 odd inches in diameter and 10 or 11 relieve us of all our bundles. We miles during the day, but felt bet- Inches long over all. We have all went on through the hot hours ter for a meal of canned "travel- Kot plenty of souvenira in the way getting hotter and thirstier and lera" rations. which Duff of shell nosca, empty shell cases, more foot-weary, and drinking brought with him. We were also shrapnel and rifle bullets, mostly. picked up in or close to our houses. course) in a day than is usual in al
moro
tea (Chinese fashion, of able to buy a tin of canned Chin-
ese fruit on the street. week. We were glad to reach in evening Mr. Wang read a lesson In the "Saturday, Septeinber 4-This mid-afternoon a lake where we got for us and Duft prayed, and our a sampar for several miles, and sol morning we got our usual shelling, were able to rest our legs, only prayers were very sincere I can as- beginning at dawn. It finished
The boys slept in the before 8 a.m., and we ahaved and making us feel the stiffness the cleaned up a bit. Dixon and Duff more when again we took to the chapel, but Duff and I had camp bamboo beds in Mr. Wang's study. ventured on a bath, using the
and slept the sleep of the righte- same water and the least possible
ous. The "Reds" here have guns! at that, as all our water has to be After another 12 li we reached on the nearby bills and machinej drawn out in the open from a well, Ko Ten betwem & and 6 p.m. guns and rifles on the city walls.] which is dangerouly exposed to having come about 30 miles on Yesterday they had an engagement the rifle and machine-gun fire. foot from the danger zone. Here with five small Chinese gunboats, Duff went over to his house and we discovered a street chapel be- and they have been dropping shells got some more foodstuffs. The longing to the Swedish Mission, fato the city. I am just wonder porch of his house and the fence where a
Mr. Lla (the Chinese ing if we have come out of the
In London, the Under-Foreign Secretary made two statements in Parliament. One was that Britain did not intend to interfere in the campaign of the Southerners. The later one was an admission that troops had been sent from Shanghai in preparedness for danger to Britons at Tientsin.
In spite of domestic politics, America has had to divert some attention to China, what with the request for her moral support and suggestions that she should mediate. Then the U.S. Minister at Peking sent a Note warning the Nationalists.
Japan, of course, is very much in the limelight at the moment, internationally, in view of the statement made by the Vice-Minister of War, a soldier, who referred to Britain's policy of defending Shanghai last year and to American intervention in Nicaragua.
News from the spot will, therefore, be doubly welcome everywhere. To ensure getting your copy, get the "Over- land China Mail" at once as it contains a complete account of the week's events. It tells what is happening up North, how anti-Nipponism spread from port lo port with- out becoming sensational, and how even in this British colony, a number of agitators ran foul of the law.
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