CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926 — Page 175

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Eaci, man said "Kill, kill, kill the

foreigners". I still did not open the church door but they

got a bunch of Chinese keys with a key that fitted the look

and opened the doors and took possession. I had not yet

seen the Commanding Officer, but in a few moments he came up

to speak to me and said "Not only the church, but Mr. Leverett's

house (the bungalow) he would havs". He ordered the local

sheriff to order all the refugees to their homes, and his soldiers took possession of the boys' school. Then talking

with me he said he would only be here three days and Sunday

he would give up the church for our services, and that his

soldiers were "vun meng* (civilised) and would do nothing

to interfere with women and girls on the compound and the

girls' school. There are between two and three hundred

soldiers in here; thay go evazywhere, drill about our houses,

toot their bugles right inte our windows, tie their horses

where they please, pull open the shutters of our windows,

gather around the windows by dozens, take our wood, come and

wash their clothes on our lower verandah, and yet they have

a woll and quite sufficient room for all this down in the

boys' school which they are occupying. When I left my room

the first day, the ory would go through the crowd "Kill, kill

the foreign woman". I knew it was just a part of their

propaganda to scare so paid no attention to it. One company

left here the second morning of their stay, going to Nanfong

and returning the next day and that was the worst company of

all.

Sunday a.m. the petty officer who first came to force

themselves upon us, came to ask if they might open an assembly

for the people at 11 o'clock in the church yard. That is the

house for our Sunday service, and I told him they had

promised to leave, and we needed the church for our services.

He said they would not stay in the church but on the terrace.

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