Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-01-31
THE HEADS or FRENcHmEN.
Prices which the Chinese Government
VIII Pay for Them.

Prices which the Chinese Government
Will Pay for Them.
Late copies of newspapers published
in China in the English language give
much space to the war with the French.
A writer in the China Mail gives a
translation of proclamation issued at
Canton by the Government, offering
rewards for the heads of French Off
GERS and soldiers. After abusing the
enemy, charging them with ingratitude
and injustice, and with being cruel,
proud and covetous, the proclamation
declares that, in the Judgment of all
the nations, the French are in the
wrong. The rewards are then an
nounced which will be granted for de-
stroying those wicked people, as fol-
lows:
/. Any soldier or civilian who will
take alive or bring in the head of the
French ommander-in-C Chief shall, after
the necessary proofs have been given,
receive a reward of 10, 900 taels, and be
recommended to the Emperor as
worthy to have bestowed on him
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Major in the army.
A tael is worth about one dollar and
fifty cents The peacock feather car
ries with it the rank of Mandarin of
superior order.
III. For French officer next in
rank to the command Ga seven stripes
officer), reward of 5000 taels and a
peacock's feather and the rank of first
Captain.
III. For an official military.of the
next rank Give stripes) 1000 taels,
with recommendation to receive a plain
feather and the rank of second Cap
tain.
". For taking or killing any officer
of lower rank, 500 taels, plain feather
and the rank of Lieutenant; for killing
a French private soldier, 100 taels,
and for every Anamese or Chinese
taken in the service of France re-
ward of fifty taels. TO any person
killing great number of the enemy a
proportionate reward will be given. If
already an official, a person taking
alive or bringing in the head of an
enemy will be recommended to higher
rank proportionately to the merit dis
played.
For capturing an iron-plated ship of
the first size reward of 100, 900 taels is
offered; for an iron-plated ship of the
second size, $4,000 taels; for wooden
vessel of the first size, 10000 taels; for
rowboat, 100 taels; and whatever is
found in the ships will be given to those
who take them. For burning or sink
ing ships of the enemy one-half the re-
ward will be paid.
For capturing heavy guns of the
enemy of 10000 eatties weight each Ca
catty being one and one-third pounds)
will be paid for each gun 5000 taels,
and to the leader 5000 taels and a
recommendation for peacock S feather
and the rank of first Captain. For
heavy guns of the second size proper
tionate rewards will be paid.
And persons, whether official or
private subjects, who shall devise means
to gain victory over the enemy shall
receive reward of $4,000 taels and be
recommended to high official dignity.
The people of any town the French
may attack who shall protect the place
against the enemy until soldiers have
arrived to render assistance will receive
reward of from 1000 to 10000 taels,
and the leader will be recommended to
receive a plain feather and official en-
ployment.
The promises of the Chinese Govern
ment are not very highly respected
where that Government is best known,
so it is expressly stated in the procla-
nation that the money promised ''has
already been drawn from the three
treasures of the province, and those tc
whom the rewards become due will re
ceive them at once. without reduction
and without delay
The effect of this proclamation was
to excite the Chinese to acts of violence
against all foreigners, as they could OF
would not distinguish between French.
men and other Europeans and Amer.
leans. Accordingly representations
were made to the ViceroY by the
foreign Consuls, which resulted in g
supplementary proclamation being
issued, of which the following is
an extract: '.Ifs any be found making
the doings of the French an occasion
of harm to the innocent people of other
nationalities they will certainly suffer
capital punishment.
In spite of this second proclamation
many cases OF violence TO foreigners
in Canton took place, and number oi
chapels were sacked. Four native
converts, soldiers in the Chinese
army, were arrested and thrown into
prison, the charges against them being,
according to the Canton Mail, ''that
they had dangerous kind of foreign
medicine, which, if put upon the heavy
guns would cause the trunnions to fall
off and render the guns useless.
No cases are known of rewards for
the heads of French soldiers being
won under the conditions of the procla.
nation, but the gunner who struck the
French ship La Galissonniere at Kimpal,
who was Lieutenant in the Chinese
army by the name of K'ang, has been
rewarded, according to the Shanghi
Courier, with breyet of third rank
eight blue button) and six hundred
taels.
lraIIan Superstitions.