Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-28
ENGLAND IN A BOX.
The Chinese Government As.
tonishes Her Statesmen.
ENGLISKMEN CAUSE RIOTS.
Germany and Austria Reioiced at Eng
lands Predicament - Missionaries
Said to be to Blame-On
the Ragged Edge.
Copyrighted, 1891, by the United Press.]
Hard on England.

Hard on England.
Special to the Gazette.
! LONDON, Sept. 26.-The message of the
| Chinese government showing that English
subjects are largely engaged in encouraging
the rebellion and the use of dynamite as a
means of destroying the established order
| of things in China, has fallen like bomb
shell on the British foreign Office. For
| months past the British government has
! been posing as the champion Of civilization
| against the Inregenerate Chinese, and
British vessels of war have been ready to
lead the other powers in the bombardment
| OF Chinese cities as penalty for not pre-
serving order. And now it turns out that
the men who are making a profitable bust
ness OF disorder are British subjects who
have been importing rifles and explosives
for the use of such natives as might be in
duced to aid in their designs. The British
authorities in China have been promptly in
structed to make the investigation as to the
guilt of the accused as thorough and search
ing as possible. In the meantime the other
powers are in quandary relative to proper
action.
The treaty binds them to act in conjunc-
tion with England, but England's right to
interfere is discredited and practically an
nulled by the developments above alluded
to. 1t is even claimed that the British sub
jects under arrest in China were merely
those of wealthy clique in Hong Kong,
who see profit for themselves in melting
the Chinese to civil war. Sensible foreign
ers at Shanhai favor the stand taken by the
Chinese government. One Of Shanghai's
most prominent foreign merchants is quoted
as authority for the statement that the
missionaries are altogether too aggressive
III going counter to the traditions and pref
udlceS OF the people, and that thereby they
often provoke popular demonstrations Of
violence which are really intended simply
as protest against their intolerance. This
Is the view recently urged by Chinese
magistrate upon the foreigners of Shang-
hal, and it has met with many favorable re-
sponses. A dispatch from Shanghai this
afternoon states that the European ref
ugees who have just arrived there from
Ichang give different version regarding
the riots at Ichang and at other upper
towns or the Yang-Tse-kiang, than has be-
fore been published. He said: 1.-The
people along the Yang-Tse- Kiang live
mainly by and on the river, and the special
unpopularity Of foreigners in that district
is undoubtedly due in great measure to the
efforts which have recently been made to
take wheel steamers, built in England, up
the rapids and establish safe and easy com
munication with the rich provinces that lie
behind the mountains, through which the
Yang-Tse-kiang pours in tremendous
gorge Immediately above Ichang. At pres
emit junks are laboriously pulled up the
stream by Cinnamon who follow one an
other in single file along the most for
midable cliff paths. The rope some
times breaks, sometimes the haulers
are jerked from their footing into the
gorge beneath, and in either case
the junk promptly speeds down the stream
again, until it is smashed to pieces on the
rocks. It is primitive but dangerous
method Of navigating the chief iuvial high
way Of China, but it employs a great deal
of Ichang labor and is therefore popular.
An extra cause for the present riots, over
and above the universal Chinese hatred for
foreigners, is found in the effort made by
Englishmen Like Mr.. Little and others to
tame and bride by steamer and steel the
famous Ichang gorges of the YangTse-
Kiang.
HAS DIED OCT.
The Dardanelles scare has at last died out
but it is now stated that alleged Russian
French intr;gues at C0Gstantinople win un-
doubtedly force England into an uncpm-