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THE SIEGE

OF KWEILIN.

EXPERIENCES OF A HONGKONG MISSIONARY.

EXTRACTS FROM A JOURNAL KEPT BY THE REV, H. S. BAILEY.

The eity of Kweilin has been closely invested for nearly three full months. Some twenty foreign missionaries, including several ladies, wero there when the siege began. Ons missionary was killed by a stray bullet during the first month of the siege. Seven, after an experience of two months of the siege, where enabled to leave, the city. These seven included, the Rev. Howard S. Bailey and Mrs. Bailey.

Before going t Kweilin. Mr. Bailey was in Hongkong for about a year and acted as fozum Tenens for the Vicar of St. Andrew's, Kowloon, during his absence at home leave. Mr. Bailes married in Hongkong towards the end of 1923, and the long journey to Kwestin was undertaken soon afterwards. Owing to the disturbed state of Kwangtung and Kwangai, Mr. and Mrs Bailey made the journey to Kweilin by way of Changsha,

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Many of Mr. and Mrs. Bailey's friends in Hongkong will be interested to read the following extracts which Mr. Bailey has sent us from the „jourdal he kept-

THE BEGINNING OF THE SIEGE.

14th April 1991.

I was stpdying the language with my teacher on the afternoon of Friday, April 11th, when we suddenly woke up to the fact that we were hearing rifle shots being fired roundabout the North Gate. Thi North Gate is about 300 yards, from our compound. The shots continued until we were quite sure they were the, noise of rifles and not Chinese crackers. On going out to the street we found soldiers hurry ing along the street from the country and soon we realised there was a war going on and that someone was laying siege to Kweilia

SHELLS DROP ON MISSION“

MONDAY, 8th April. The siege has now lasted more than & fortnight and still the situation remains the same. "There are always rumours of relieving forces coming; but they never

come.

During the battle outside the West Gate Jast Saturday week n shell was dropped on to the Girls Sebool of the American Southern Baptist Mission. It broke through the upper storey and killed one of the girls on the ground floor. On the same occasion, boy in the Boys School, was struck by a bullet in the Fead.

BLAZING FIRES.

THE JESUS MAN DEFEATED

BY DEVILS"

Last night as we went to bed we say the sky aglow with the reflection of a

After the death of Mr. Cunningham a fire somewhere outside the West Gate. notice was posted up in the city some- Almost every hight now these fres. Rave thing to this effect. been blazing outside, every Gate, ProThe missionaries--God is angry with clamations in the city make out that it them. The Jesas mún has been defeated is the enemy who light these fires, but we by the devils. It is no longer any use ta believe that it is by this method that the believe Anyone who tears this antice. city troops destroy any of the houses out down, let his sons be robbers and his side each gate which would enable the daughters"prostitutes," enemy to creep up close to the gate under cover and be enabled thus to get surer aim at the men defending the walls,

THE FOURTH WEEK OF THE SIEGE.

There is a humourous side, even to this,

MINING THE WALLS.

for who should tear it down but the old Catholic Priest who is of course, celi- bate!

We were awakened this morning. by another battle commencing. Then as wo listened we heard the "shwish" of n shell as it passed close over head. After some time again we heard the swish of & second shell, rushing, as it seemed to

MONDAY, 5th May. ** This week will see the fourth week of the siege pass us and still no relieving forces arriving. The days are very much alike and the fighting is generally desal tory. Prices of food are still high and no doubt there is a serious shortage of ordinary meats such as pork and beef. US, straight for our.compound. We heard. We can still buy chickens and the enemy fit land somewhere near, but it did not is kept at suficient distance so that oc- burst. Then presently a third Gendish Pasionally certain of the city gates enn noise which we quite made up our minds be opened, and pork and rice and vegeta going to hit us this time. However, ables can be brought in. Outside it passed over and must have exploded. the walls there are some very good veget- somewhere quite cluse; for we not only able gardens. The Chinese are good heard the report but we saw the blind- gardeners and really these gardens aping flash as it exploded. This made our pear equal to the best market gardens hearts beat a little faster and harder some of these vegetables up over the fast time arrived withour further shocka. at home. And they say they are lifting than usual and we were glad when break- walls whenever there is a lull in the fight During the day we have heard that no ing. So the people are not yet starving less than thirteen shells have been, frei streets, and perhaps the Chinese aro Undoubtedly horsemeat is un sale on the

into the city! Two of them exploded in. the Magistrate's yamen. He is the man. pating more dogs this usual.

who succeeded the one who was execut-" DETERMINED ATTACK BY THE

ed. He came to get some medicine from EVENING.

my sister this morning and told her about.

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This morning before dawn, at about: The South Gate was also undermined;. 4.30 a.m., determined attack was made the enemy mining through until they on the North Gate. The din of battle were inside the city wall, even then, tin was awful. The hills and valleys echoed effort proved absortive for they miscalcu- » and re-echoed with the noise. We just later their distance so that they mined: lay in our beds and hoped for the best through under some houses which were ing ladders right up to the walls and noise the charge made when it exploded. Our soldiers say the enemy carried scal. blown up. instead of the city wall. The made a vain attempt to scale the walls. seems to have been the signal for, the All through breakfast and right on till wide shelling of the city which took place,. men arrived and one of them had a bulleting the breach, in the wall by the enemy, 11 am. the battle raged. A few wounded and should have been the signal, for sh which had entered through his cheek and but this part of the plan failed. lodged under the skin is his right temple, Everyday we continue to receive. A short operation removed the bullet, but they never arrive. We have a great passing through the roof of his mouth rumours of relieving forces approaching but this mouth had been terribly injured. deal of rain now an it is our own rainy hospital, is able to accommodate but few stops the fighting for the time being and My sister's hospital. being a woman's season: Rain rather comforts us because it soldiers. Most of them go on to the allows us to live in peace and free from Chinese Red Cross (such as it is) and all fears. to the American Haptist Hospital.

AN INTERLUDE RELYING ON FOREIGN HOSPITALS,

-Wednesday, 7th May, 1924. It is getting really hot now with in Average temperature of 60. Even so it is not nearly so humid and uncomfortable

Hongkong

SUNDAY, June 1st, 1921. For the last week now we have enjoyed an unusual amount of quietness and prac and freedom from noise of battle.. This: is partly due to much rain-but more This morning a Chinese woman came to was to the effect that Wu. Pei Eu sent My sister has a strange, story to-day.heard at the beginning of the week. It

probably to the truth of Pa. ZUBIONE W

the hospital and asked for a private inter- delegates-no less view. Her story was that her husband Hong Ying to act ns. mediators between" than four-to. Ban was an officer serving in Yu Yong Tin's him and La. They are said to have talked forres and that formerly be served in with San first and then to have obtained the forces of the man who is Lu Yong an interview with Lai. The latter is sai "Tin's enemy at present. She then went to have doubted their credentials (not ing out and that they would therefore sufficiently however to have them shot) on to say that Lu's ammunition was giv

small paper packet and in this packet willing to withdraw ten miles from the lave to begin manufacturing explosive city with orders to return to Show Hong and to have escorted them outside the. themselves. At this she produced Ying. Lu's proposal is that if Sun is was enclosed a small

crystal

white

About a week before this, Yu Yong

On Easter Sunday afternoon represen. an old native of Nanning, the Constitu- tatives of all the various Foreign Mis tional Governor of Kwangsi (ie.,the sions in Rweilin received invitations from Governor recognised and appointed by the Chief Magistrate to meet him in the Peking) had returned from the north with Chamber of Commerce. There he gave his army and large supplies of ammuni- us to understand that the leaders of both sion and arms which he had just obtain-sides of the struggle were willing for an ed Since then an enemy had arisen. Armistice if some mediator might he Who this enemy is we cannot yet find found. And as on his recommendation out. It is most probably an attack by and request we went on to seek an inter- a man called Sun Hong In, who, it is view with Lu Yong Tin. On arrival at saith, has received the gift of Kwangsi the General's yamen we sought admis from Sun Yat Ser! If this is the case sion to the great man's presence. This was it is then part of the war between North refused us. So after making it quite and South Chink. Some people say it clear we had not come on our own initia is simply a private and personal quarrel tive and having been assured by one of between Lu Yang Tin and another man, the junior oficials that there was no

Whatever it is there is a big fight

desire on the part of the defenders for going on. Already it has lasted three armistice, we returned to report to days and Aweilin is reduced in a state the Magistrate, this time in his private of_seige: fond is scarce and prices are ainen, the failure of our efforts. going up. All the ancient walls are being CHIEF MAGISTRATE SHOT AS A manned by soldiers and all the old gates"

TRAITOR. have been closed and barricaded. Stray Imagine the shock we received when bullets and a few shells have been flying before midday the next day, Monday, all over the city, killing and wounding we heard that this same Chief Magis poder. This, she said was a powder city thea Lu can, without loss of face, a few civilians. The bluffs deha around trate had been summarily shot by the from fre crncker makers, but that the ning and the south-western end of Kwang- they required; that it could be obtained withdraw his troops and depart to Nan- and magnify the noise of battle to an General's orders for treating with the kind obtained there was not good enough. He himself will he content to govern alarming extent. Lu's men so far have enemy: Our Bishop said he passed him Would my sister supply her with it? Or that part if Sun will be willing to accept held their ground and gained many valua few minutes before he met his death, ant know what the powder was and that THE MYSTERY OF MR. CUNNING-

course, my sister's reply was that she did Kweilin and the north-east able heights outside the city. The story riding his horse on his way in, response even if she did know she would not dream is that Lu offered the reward of $500 for to an invitation to meet the official who such a purpose. With the packet was each hij won.

supplying her with such a thing for

HAT'S DEATH. a few minutes later must have performed slip of paper with the name of the the Southgate Mission Compound. Mrs. On Saturday evening soon after lurk the execution. The Magistrate was, ap powder in Chinese characters, which my Cunningham still lives outin har house Yesterday afternoon I paid a visit to the enemy evidently made a determined |parently ignorant of his fate until the

sister could not make out at all. attack on the North Gate, for we heard moment came when he was suddenly Lin's men. say that he received 850,000 never yet her lied but he still lies in In contrast to the above story, Yu Yong Mr. Cunningham's body of course has which has had many bullets through it.. terrific bombardment followed by found, taken out into the front of the rounds of ammunition from Wu Pei Fubin coffin-a huge black Chinese coffin ghastly shor & and yells, ending in favour official residence and shot within view At that rate they should have a good dah No doubt the Southgate people In Monday's fight they shot away. 30,000 which is placed on the corner of his veran of the defenders. We have had to keep of any of the general public who might supply left yet. very careful cover all the time because have been passing in the street at the the Red Cross Hospital. That probably been very mich nearer to them than it we hear the sound of bullets continuously time.

As this moment there are 200 men in indeed and the firing and the fighting has have been through a very trying time whizzing-over our compound and a few

means that the total number of Le's has twen to us. How on earth, Mr. Cüne sheila (in.) have also thundered over us.

THE CITY'S GENERAL

casualties may now be 300 men and ningban was shot remains a mystery to Thank goodness they not yet using many big guns. So far, we know if only three

Since the execution the old General side had made the very slightest proof an open courtyard superintending the officers. When this siege began neither reaching the inside of the city. Two of has received as many as fire shells tram vision for medical aid and now, as the digging of the foundations of a

me! There he was standing in the middle these never exploded, one of them passed the enemy in one through a Chinese house, two stone walls compound. If Lu Yong Tim has one recign hospitals, Yesterday 20 civilians, walls twenty feet high. It is only twenty afternoon Lato buon foreign doctors and upon the for surrounded by Chinese houses and high event proves, Lu is depending entirely church. This courtyard is completely and then came to rest unexploded in the deeming feature which we as white men mostly botmen from the river, were American Baptist compound. Miss Sum- mer bravely picked it up and placed it in admire it, is that he does not hesitate brought in wounded-caught in the line yards square. A fellow missionary had

to expose himself to the line of are in the of fire, a

only just left him a few moments before streels or on the city wallz He is a

and reached his stuly upstairs when be fairly old man and has been suffering. from a bad foot, and he has been carried

was called out again by Chinese workmen, only to find Mr. Cunningham lying dend. Why not have him buried where ho I said to Mrs Cunningham yesterday

a tub of water.

A TERRIFIC BATTLE.

می بینی

**

of

MORE NOISE THAN DAMAGE. WEDNESDAY, 21st May, 192, The mysterious powder the Chinese

There is still no change in the situation; † up, and down the city walla and the wanted turned out to the. Possesium all 7 and under what will one day be the

SAFE EXIT FOR SEVEN MISSIONARIES.

Juse gist, 1024

situation was suddenly changed. Bishop received a letter written by Os Sunday morning, June 8th, our Tha

Wilson. In this letter we were in-

SATURDAY, 10th April. but this afternoon, commencing at mid city streets evidently giving personal dar, and continuing now, 5.30 p., there directions about the fight He has also Chlorate useful to help to make explos has been a terrific battle fought, and now paid visits to hin sick and wounded men siscs. Since then my sister has received new church Why she said, "if wa report comes through that Lu Yong Tins they have been laid in our mission offered $5,000 to sue men if they would hospitals. He has always shown smiling there been lying fur years some old and superstitious horror of all cospecs had

oficial application for this powder

did that the Chinese would never again go and secure a village about two miles favours to us foreigners

Along the ancient walls of the city come near the compound. They have a west of the West Gate. Still the city MISSIONARY KILLED BY STRAY used for shooting, cannon balls a century has been completely closed as for

obsolete cannon--the sort of things we cours civilians are concerned. We just wonder what will be the end of it all. The people

SHOT

go and now the defenders have begun Last evening we received the worst of powder and fire out any old bits of living on the west of the city must have news of all so far. Near the Sonth iron they can pick up. The damage is to play with these. They jam them full been having a frightening time. And Gate the American Alliance have a Mis likely to be nil but the noise is enough now the noise has died down and so that sion Compound. The head of this was the to tighten one out of ones skin any time perhaps will be the final attack for the Rev. J. R. Cunningham, who was the first of the day or night. present. A shell struck a house just op missionary to enter Kweilin 2 years ago. posed our C.M.S. Church, bursting but He came from New York. He was one European war were we cut off from news formed of his arrival the other side of doing very little damage. A bullet has of the most manly, cheerful and humorous of the outside world as we have been the river from Yungehow with the Rev. R. also passed through the two walls of the ment I have ever met. On Saturday now for six weeks to-day, Mackey of the Wesleyan Mission. There chancel of our Church, So we live from afternoon while superintending the dig day to day wondering what is going to ging of the foundations for a terrife battle out at the North Gate and being able to get a word through to us. On Thursday last we had another they had been for a whole wock without be the next excitement

This shell crashed through the roof and him right in the very centre of his sign of bullets. We heard, afterwards Huaan peace delegate arrived and desired

new church, stray bullet struck as usual bar compound had its contribu Suddenly the opportunity came when burst in the centre of the shop. It killed head and killed him instantly. This has that the "insiders" made an attack out an entrance into "Kweilin to talk peace, no one although there were men asleep come, as a terrible shock to us all. He behind the counters. They are small leaves a widow andwa amall daughter, shells and do comparatively little damage.The latter is at the school in Cheloo. He unless they make a direct hit. Even then was a splendid missionary and spoke the only 50 per cent, explode...

Janguage like a nativo.

Never during the whole length or other member of our mission, Rev. J.

north-westwards" upon the outsiders" He brought in Mr. Wilson's letter. Later and succeeded in gaining two more bluffs in the day Mr. Wilson himself got aerosa The bugles accompanied the fighting na the river and entered the city. It was usual and the men rained cheers and decided at once that some of us shourt shouts as the fight proceeded.

leave the city soon possible