Under marching orders : a story of Mary Porter Gamewell . gings they couldcarry, and hasten to the legations about amile away where all foreigners were to be as-sembled. Out in the streets of Chinas capital, Baronvon Ketteler, the German ambassador, hadbeen killed by an officer of the Chinese im-perial army. The first shot had been firedupon the foreigner, and China stood in battlearray against the nations of the world. TheGerman ambassador had actually given hislife in sacrifice for the entire foreign settle-ment, for it was his death which revealed be-yond a doubt Chinas dastardly intention.
Under marching orders : a story of Mary Porter Gamewell . gings they couldcarry, and hasten to the legations about amile away where all foreigners were to be as-sembled. Out in the streets of Chinas capital, Baronvon Ketteler, the German ambassador, hadbeen killed by an officer of the Chinese im-perial army. The first shot had been firedupon the foreigner, and China stood in battlearray against the nations of the world. TheGerman ambassador had actually given hislife in sacrifice for the entire foreign settle-ment, for it was his death which revealed be-yond a doubt Chinas dastardly foreigners were to have been lured out ofPeking only to be massacred by Boxers beforethey reached Tientsin. Minister Conger senthis last letter to the Methodist compound:Come at once within the legation lines andbring your Chinese with you. Dr. Mor-rison, the correspondent of the LondonTimes, a true man and valorous, had stoodup in the midst of the legation council andboldly declared: M should be ashamed tocall myself a white man if I could not make. K O « M o o O X m o m K02 « o a z o o OO a H -<! El,O < ao 5 w o 5?: o I 119 150 Under Marching Orders a place of refuge for these Chinese Chris-tians. At eleven oclock in the forenoon, the longprocession passed through the mission gateinto Filial Piety Lane, thence across the greatthoroughfare which led southward to theHata gate, and turned westward into Lega-tion Street. First in the ranks marched thetwenty marines, led by Captain Hall, andfollowed by the missionary women and chil-dren. Behind them a detachment of Germansoldiers bore upon a stretcher the woundedman who had been the interpreter for Baronvon Ketteler, and who had almost miracu-lously escaped death in his flight to the Meth-odist compound. Then came the one hundredand twenty-six school girls marching insimple, quiet dignity as if they were on theirway to a religious service or a school of Chinese women and little chil-dren, followed by
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