"'Our Guard' 1917 Besides these we also had a soldier guard of 15 men who patroled at night with oversight by one of our foreign men. These are the school boys (orphans) with Messers. Rice & Grafton. The rifles, borrowed from Gen. White are of German make." Soldiers dressed in white are lined up holding rifles in Haichow [now Haizhou]. Lorenzo and Ruth Bennett Morgan were American medical missionaries in the Jiangsu and Anhui provinces of China, serving under the Presbyterian and Methodist mission boards from 1905 to 1946.
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