Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVI. CHRONICLES OF HORROR. Sufferings of Isolated Missionaries Throughout the Empire--Escape of the Queen PartyTorture, Starvation anil Death--Seventeen Days in a Coffin--The Story of Father Fridella--Perilous Journeys to the Coast--Russian Atrocities in Manchuria--French Cruelties at Tungchau--Massacres by the Germans. WHILE the besieged multitude in the British Legation was undergoing weeks of suspense, waiting for rescue, elsewhere in the empire other parties of missionaries, fewer in number and more helpless still because of their isolation, were passing through sufferings and trials of the most extreme sort. Only some of the more conspicuous of these can be related. The whole can never be recorded. Martyrdom and Christian courage set noble examples to the barbarous mobs that tortured to death men and women who had no other purpose than to bear to them the Christian faith. When the story of the period of blood and massacre in China is told few of its chapters will be as startling as the narrative of the Green party, which was found almost dead by the allied expedition. Its tale of hardship and abuse and almost miraculous preservation has leaked to the outer world in bits. Mr. and Mrs. Green, members of the China Inland Mission, with their two children, a boy and a girl, 5 and 3 years old, respectively, and Miss Greig, an assistant, were stationed at Huailu, a small town 120 miles south of Paotingfu. During the first week of July news of massacres of missionaries were received in Paotingfu and also news of the destruction of the missions at Shuntifu, Chaochi and Shenyvi and of the moving of the troops from the Shansi province toward Tientsin to attack the foreigners. Hearing of the state of affairs, the little party moved...
