Show DISTURBANCE WIDESPREAD Uprising Extends Over Large Part of Chinese Empire New York June 2LThe international interna-tional committee of thc Y M C A today received from Secretary Lewis located at Shanghai the following answer an-swer to a cable sent him last Monday asking for Information concerning Robert Rob-ert P Galley In charge of the work at Then Tsln anil his family Shanghai June 20 Galleys arc believed be-lieved m to have escaped Unable to communicate with them as the telegraph tele-graph line Is broken to Then Tsln Have applied to Consul a Cite Foo tory to-ry to obtain further particulars DISTURBANCE WIDESPREAD X letter showing that the disturb ance In China is widespread has just been received by A D Van Denburg who Is In the business department of the Presbyterian board of foreign missions mis-sions nt 156 Fifth avenue Tho letter Is from Mr Van Denburgs brother Dr E E Van Denburg a medical missionary mis-sionary at Nodoa In the Island of Hainan Thq letUr which was writ ten about the mlfidlc of May slates that there was a band of robbers a thousand strong In thu mountains back ofXodoa Theaown is nineteen miles Inland and without protection Thc townspeople wanted thc mission aries to lei them have their guns so they could fight thc robbers Thc missionaries mis-sionaries declined on the ground that the treaty forbade such a course The robbers belonged to a society known bv time name of Lot They are sup posed lo be an offshoot of the Boxers BOY HELD FOR RANSOM In his letter Di Van Denburg says I 1 Lately thc thieves Just below here have been robblngand pillaging and they took one boy about 13 years old up In the hills fifteen miles from here and held him until 3300 had been paid a very large sum for these people I The Christians hi a village called Slak Bag not far below here have been < here with tears In their eyes asking for rifles but as It Is against the treaty I believe wo will have to refuse them The people have built a square fort two stories of mud bricks so as to bo able to keep thieves away from their gates I TO SAVE MISSIONARIES The Rev Dr Arthur J Brown one of I the secretaries of the Presbyterian I board today sent the following cable to tho Rev W O ElterliMi secretary of the association at Chic Fcc spar no expense to save Presbyterian WIsV slonarlefl Dr Brown also cabled the Rev George F Fitch al Shanghai as fol lows Order Kullng missionaries to I port Cubic particulars Whore Is Mprrls Kullng IK a town 450 miles up the Yang Tse river and fifteen miles from the river Thc steamers on tin Yang Tse are run by foreigners but there arc Chinese forts all along the river and If the trouble should extend down to that region thc missionaries at Kullng would be cut off from the civilized civ-ilized world entirely TWO AT Kf LING The Morris referred to Is the Rev Dr Morris lie Is supposed to b1 at Ruling when there an two medical missionaries Doctors Samuel Cochran and H W Boyd Mrs Cochran and Mrs Boyd were also there at last accounts ac-counts |