Show FROM LAND OF BOXERS Missionary from China Visiting Visit-ing in the City SPEAKS ON CHINA TONIGHT Rev Mr Herring Accompanied by His Family Arrived Yesterday After Fifteen Years labor in Celestial Celes-tial Empire Had Narrow Escape from Boxers Before Leaving China Escaping on Bicycles Thinks Fighting Will Be Resumed When Chinese Learn of Ultimatum Rev and Mrs D W Herring Baptist Bap-tist missionaries from China and three chIldren arrived yesterday from Seattle Se-attle and are domiciled with W P Wlngate of Amos teirace until Monday next when they rcsume hclr eastward Journey to their home In North Carolina Caro-lina Mr Herring has been In China for fifteen years seven of which he represented the foreign missionary board of the Baptist Southern convention conven-tion and for eight years ho was supported sup-ported by his own home church as a gospel missionary He lectures this evening In the East Side Baptist church on China and the Chinese and the present crisis under the auspices of the Ladies Missionary union of the church Mr Herring and his family got out of the country Just in the nick of time although he did not run away because of the danger but left his station sta-tion for the coast on account of sickness sick-ness in his family And as Just at that time the orator broke loose Mr Herring and family have returned to the States for flio r > rfmr nt In an interesting talk last night with a Tribune representative Mr Herring said he was stationed at the city of Chining GOO miles inland from Che Foo in the province of Shan rung where the mission was doing well It was In that part of the province that the Boxer movement originated and the organization was called at first Big Knife The title gradually merged Into Boxer though Voluntary Fist society Is the more technically correct translation of the name The society was rather respectable years ago when first started and was in tended to protect citizens from rob bet bands from the mountains but like many other secret societies one ob ject was opposition to tIme Manchu dy nasty though this was strictly seciet as discovery meant Instant death The robbers however managed to get into the society themselves and In time it was turned Into an engine of oppression oppres-sion and especially toward the Roman Ro-man Catholics and native Christians The reports of the pretense of the Dowager Empress to repress the Boxers Box-ers while secretly encouraging them In attacking foreigners were sustained by Mr Herring His family was be sieged at one town en route East by a mob who were stood off by the mis sionary with a sixshooter as they sought to break into the house where I he was staying and ho hurried out with his family on bicycles before Jay light with the children before and behind Had they remained longer they would have been massacred The party was given a military escort later and was saved from the roving bands of Boxers who were met on the road They reached Cue Foo June 19th Mr Herring says the war Is not a religious one but solely against for eigners and the missionaries suffered most because they woro mnro in i mediate association with the people The Chinese saw In the railroad the destruction of so much manual labor and they are opposed to telegraphs and other modern inventions Mr Herring thinks that although the Chi nose are now Inclined to peace when they learu the ultimatum of the pow ers war will be resumcd The native i Christians are being slaughtered all over the empire and what he outcome will be no one can tell |