A Startling Message
A cablegram to a Methodist missionary society hints at the massacre of dozens of missionaries in Tien Tsin during the Boxer uprising.
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The Evening Bulletin · June 23, 1900 · Page 1
1 min readNew York, June 22.
Dr. Leonard, secretary of the Methodist Foreign Missionary society, received the following cablegram from Chefoo: "Tien Tsin bombarded. Peking very serious. Hopkins, Brown and King saved. Gunboat Brown." The three men mentioned are missionaries. Dr. Leonard infers from the fact that only those who were saved are cabled, the remaining 24 missionaries in Tien Tsin have been murdered by the "Boxers." Among them are many women, including five in the Women's Foreign Missionary society and members of the Haynor, Pike and Hopkins and Brown families.
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