Show I SUFFERING OF OFTE tHE TE GREEN PARTY Story of Tuck Their Most Marvelous I Escape DY BY HArE Tinie Tillie They cretell III n U bJ Pan TIng l Fu u Oct Oot pond ot the All the tt tor ot this I ot of blood and In ta Is told few tew ot of It Its will be 11 na brIlliant nf au the ot of the Orn part who were deAd donti by the allied ex ax rue tale tnIe ot of their hardship in abuse an 1 miraculous pros pres Ito leaked to the work I by but to the ent of the A Prill Iut ItA details of and cruDIty were wera told for tor fortIss time by Miss Tn 1 N Mr tr and Mrs Oreen members ot of the Inland mission miNion with nh their two chilli children rent a bu boy and girl R d anit o years und and Miss un were werl stationed at a small town 10 mites south of lila place DurIng tue first weik ot of Jul July of massacres ot of mission ants were In lao Fao rung I Fu u and ml also u fles ot of the dc destruction ur or orthe the mission miNion at u und and Shan Shen YI and or of the moving of at the tr IS tram from the tha Shan 81 province to toWards Wards Tien Thin to attack the foreign eta On of the state of at fairs the little lItte party part moved away to the mountains on the advice ot of the tho mandarin to 0 go Into hiding biding The They took with them only a tow taw bare necos shies carrying the children a asleep In their arms anti amI wore conducted by two or three Chinese servants to II a temple R a short dl distance tance back In the hula hills Here the they remained two daYI daya anti ami were then informed by the vii 11 lagers who thu temple that they It t once leave The They were also told mit their home had been hean des destro troed tro el and the site made the head headquarters quarters of a Boxer camp IN it A C CAVi E Some friendly Chinese showed the tho party part a small C cave U a 11 tittle ittle distance from the tha temple tample whore whole th they remained Her ted for two days and three nights the tho utmost their hilling hiding being only about six feet IW by tour four with water from the thereof While the party la lay In the cave the Boxers were seen and amI heard searching MArching the for tor tho for tor olga devils On the third da day theIr servants dl discovered covert d them and led them to II a farm house where the entire party lived In one small room for II a month not daring to stir str from their retreat In the da day time antI and on oni with the gr greatest caution nt at nIght On Au II 1 the Boxers discovered their hiding place from which theIr host had made malle a tunnel to n a ORe cave II a short dis tane tance away awny The Tho that the little hand band bt be given clen up to them On hearing their benefactor be beIng being Ing beaten and tortured Mr Ir Green reen determined to 10 give up and do what he to save his and lit Ill tie tic ones and MIl Miss Grieg Mi AM the ml mis missionary appeared nt at the mouth ot of the cave ho he was Immediately shot In the face with a charge ot of fine Wounded and bleedIng he pleaded for tor forthe the women and children but with no avail The Boxers ordered them from the tunnel and the frightened women came forth expecting death or worse J and swords were pre held over their heads and nil all their possessions were taken from them except their clothing The They were to march to their former horn home here they wore were met b by the mandarin upon whose whole advice they had gone Into hiding Th This man beat and Mr Green and reproached him for tor not om eom him for advice and no AN The mandarin then he would send the P to with un an escort ot of ImperIal troops lie as assured them they would receive ample protection at u The ho i were placed In rough wood tour four wheeled and started on their journ journey About three miles out the they Were overtaken by two Boxers who hail originally captured capture them and l on reaching were admission to the olt city because of their Por three days 11 and nIghts stop except at rare rore intervals tb of native food tood they were vert through the country to Po Pao Ting Ju Fu with abuse ml mistreated and Place literally swarm Ing with Boxers demanding theIr lives the hapless Prisoners wera to II the yemen ur of the chief Who refused to receive them Then occurred n a strange mci Inci dent The Tho chief Boxer himself Plead eti for tor his prisoners antI Induced Yuen to Oina speak to Mr Ir Green He expressed sorrow It at seeing the con ot of the prisoners and said laid he would tend them to Tien Fain under an escort ot of Imperial troops am with his H lie also aio offered to thorn theta with money munt to curo food tood on the journey That the they were taken to R a boat but found rounel neither troops nor Th They were In tact fact again In the hands ot the Hoxer who tool took them some thirty down the river and on Wednesday oon ay afternoon landed them In a marsh covered with high reeds and In informed formed them that Tins Ting Yuen had or or dered that they should be put to death and their bodies ot of otSA SA ED TIm THE N Nt At t this time the children were un the moans leans ot of saving the live lIvee ot of the entire party for the lie same Hour who had previously l Interceded for tor forthm and evidently a I s for tor the little on ones at and told Mr Ir Green they mUtt must tI tIto try to reach Tien alone He then left leU them and took tin the boat beat awn away The Trul mono money which lied hod been Provided for tor their sUbsistence tence was In the copper cOPlin cash uh ot of the country anil was too bulk bulky to t carry therefore the little band hond was Willi heft entirely helpless In the vast allt swamp To help to their misery violent storms arose and toward as s the they I hiding place Illare thy they bends ot of Boxers scouring HI the swami In III search of them their presence baring bean discovered by vii 11 la lagers e As fell Mr fr Green Oreen nl ai most from his wounds made madelila lilt lila way accompanied b by his hll to 10 lI 11 houle anti was II told b by the owner that 1 it friend ot of big hll would take to Tien Tala Thin Then he left ostensibly to toBt get Bt I a boat bont null and make arrangements tor or their escape After fter a while the villager returned bringing not the promised aid nili but a large pArty of The mob burst bunt In tb ot of th hut and nud un unmercifully mercifully beat With swords and staves Mr fr Green Orn the and children insensible despairing and hope hopt ieee the devoted little party gave up i but cruelty was In store for tor OF TIm The Boxers decided to take their cap tires to a village a mill mile awa away find and de devies vies the ml means ot of transporting am tor torturing turing them at the tho came Iame time Mr Mi Greens left was wal bound to lila hll left foot Mrs Green and autI Miss 1111 Grel Greig were tied lied hands to feet teet lett hand to left toot foot and rIght hand to right foot and the tho little girl was treated d In the seine same way handles were wert then thrust their arm nile and they svere to their The little boy was wall slun slung across the back ot of 1 a ban In the village or of Sinan they were thrown down hound In the mutt mud of a acourt acourt court yard and examined as to their identity Their story was al nt at atthe the examiners refusing to believe that ally 11 foreign devils had been let go by byth bythe th the Boxers ant and a Was wall sent to Pao Ting Fu to ascertain the truth and determine the fate of the captives In the meantime tile the and amI trussed like fowls were vere thrown Into t 1 temple There they remained for tor two day aI their hands unbound In or order order der to permit them to eat eal the rations of uncooked millet and eel colt water rater served to them On thc third da they the deputatIon returned from ron Pao TIllS Fu and th the were tol told that Tins Yuen had previous I 1 ordered d heir death and amI bal nu now reo re reheated heated the there were two to sets ot of the civil and military the former fonner arms and subsistence to the move movement men I and operations which the latter eXe executed The civil section heard ot of the defeat ot of the nt at Taku and elsewhere and ordered the prisoners to tobe tobe be kept alive to be Ul IS as hostages should the he be to lI to the thA It Hf Von Pon Fing Pu Fu but should hould no auth be made maae they would consent to the death of the foreigners To this policy thu th little party owe their lives After two days ot of misery they svere un unbound bound anI and allowed dall daily walks In the compound with lit at their necks sleeping In the temple under n a chI or three week th they remained In their deplorable captivity dall daily cx x l death demanded ovary day hy by bythe tilt the ot of no who insisted that the HIP women om should lit 1 turn turned over to them alive to be afterwards to ileath OF HOPE One gloam ot of hop hOI they halt had A M an tive hooking at them through the win window dow threw In n a piece ot of per md and mo tInned to Mr Ir G Green n to It Think Thinking Ing It vas only another insult he reo re refused fused to do so but oti the gestures of the Chinaman and the In alliance of the women hI he thu liD so and found written on the paper poper the In Ing message Do not fear The are being killed I am going to Tien Tein and anil will viiI your consul The was nR true to III hi word carrying b tile lire life In his hll hands and anil made hlll hIs way to Ten n T Tein ln and the matter to General the commander General Lorne 1 immedIately wrote the tanti of lao 10 Ting Pu Iru threatening reprisal should any harm befall Ih the On Greens or Miss t pun receipt of this mel 1181 sage TinA Yuen sent lent un an to Sinan to fetch the ra captive to Pao Tin Fu tor or safe saC Ill wab informed at In inti ln that the party had hisen sent aa In reality they ber weri then In a R a room In the if f the de demend mend of tilt the n Boxe mob that th tb lie 1 OIl to tn them Tt Th enfer from rein the altti II that If he be went ent I Ito to An holl I the hI would be tred Id to then them IN A CO COMMON t ION let n Ith the prIson prisoners Were to 10 lUlU aidi to put ut on th bout boat und LIni arrived at lao Pao Tta Iru Fu here the they were wrt put In the common prism n and confined l tor or tour four da daya On receipt ot of Another letter troth Foin this the lint Ish At Tim lain they wary tp t a small house and accorded bt better In this remained nUl I the arrival of tilt column an October hearing of the presence ot of the French Mr Green Oreen asked wh why they were ero not handel over and wa wac told that th the French Iad collie coins on connected with the railway and bath nothing to do wIth their case On the night of the tue ft a servant mana managed to 10 Inform the JI French corn com mandant ut of the presence ot of the party anti and parI early th the their bondage was broken and they we were handed over oer to protection Mr Green Is II now In a hospital In a avery avery very critical state suffering front d dy dysentery Dud and collapse The Th entire larty Is II In 1 a co condition ot of weakness re suIting from dysentery contracted white In the temple One hire wae sacrificed In this fearful the par lIAr lIArt party I t ty underwent The little girl Irl unable I Ito to withstand the hardships was taken I III and died October three days I i before succor arrived |