 | Herbert Allen Giles - 1912 - 188 pages
...safety in an ignominious flight. Meanwhile, in response to a memorial from the Governor of Shansi, she had sent him a secret decree, saying, " Slay all...prepared to leave your province, yet must they be slain." A second and more urgent decree said, " I command that all foreigners, men, women, and children, be... | |
 | Hosea Ballou Morse - 1918 - 590 pages
...converts — the [47] Smith, " Convulsion," ii, p. 594. [48] " Ten days ago she sent him [Yiihsien] a secret decree saying — ' Slay all foreigners wheresoever you find them ; even though they bo prepared to leave your province, yet must they be slain.' " — Chingshan, Diary, July 4th, p. 287.... | |
 | Harley Farnsworth MacNair - 1927 - 976 pages
...me that Yu Hsien has sent in a memorial to the Empress Dowager with reference to the missionaries hi Shansi. Ten days ago she had sent him a secret Decree,...now reported that Tuan Fang, the acting governor of Shansi, and Yii Chang, governor of Honan, together with the high officials in Mongolia, received the... | |
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Shansi. Ten days ago she had sent him a secret Decree, saying: "Slay all foreigners wheresoever you find them; even though they be prepared to leave your province, yet must they be slain." It seems that the Old Buddha ordered that this Decree should be... 