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Title: Fifty years in China : being an account of the history and conditions in China and of the missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States there from 1867 to the present day
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Woodbridge, Samuel Isett
Subjects: Presbyterian Church in the U.S Missions
Publisher: Richmond : Presbyterian Committee of Publication
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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hang was forced by thecounter revolutionists to retire from Nanking, which hehad held for the Imperial Party. Seeing that the mon-archy was lost, he and his soldiers kept prudently quietuntil the second revolution. In some mysterious way hewas employed by Yuan Shih-kai to drive out the secondrevolutionists from their position in Nanking. Here wasa rare chance for the pig-tailed robbers to retake thecity and wreak their vengeance on the inhabitants. Inthe summer of 1913 the army of General Chang besiegedNanking. Many of our missionaries remained inside thecity during this trying time. Some of them knew Changpersonally and used their influence to turn him from hispurpose of massacre and pillage. The wily chief actuallyissued a proclamation guaranteeing safety and peace tothe inhabitants of the city and a missionary had it postedup on the street. But no sooner had the defending armycapitulated than the cruel soldiers treacherously beganthe work of slaughter among the unsuspecting people.
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0) (0 ^ o00-43 a o S J3o (U in G1> o hH to «u o i- <U M 5i i^ a u o 2 o o c ^ o Ui (188) DEVELOPMENT OF MISSIONARY WORK 189 The missionaries worked hard in the midst of extremedanger, but the miscreant Chang wreaked his vengeanceon his enemies. Nanking was sacked the second time inless than three years by these same inhuman troops.Chang then withdrew his army to his headquarters inSuchowfu, after receiving the meed of praise from thegovernment at Peking. Pillage of the peaceful inhabi-tants with the consent of the chief was a mere incidentof the war. President Li became restless. He was tired of thejob, but stuck to his post, although the monarchists werepressing him hard. Being President was not a bed ofroses. Sun Yat-sen had divined this fact at the outsetwhen he retired in favor of Yuan. The key to thepresent interesting situation in China will be found inthe events which followed the pillage of Nanking. Disturber of the National Peace.—General TuanChi-jui who wa

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