Mr. Six

One R. L. Six, an unidentified foreigner, presumably a missionary, accompanied four friends to Luchowfu, Anhwei Province, to see the native religious festival in honor of the Goddess of Mercy.

Amid a crowd of 10,000 Chinese, gathered to watch the parades and incense-burning, Mr. Six produced the inevitable occidental camera and started to take snapshots. The devotees of Mercy mobbed the amateur photographer and beat him senseless. Chinese Christian converts from a neighboring missionary school rescued Mr. Six by kidnapping the leaders of the mob and threatening them with death if the antiforeign rioting did not cease.

Another foreigner was run out of the village amid a hail of sticks, stones and mud. And one Miss Harmon, who had accompanied Mr. Six, was hit on the head with a stone and sprained her ankle, running from the Goddess of Mercy.