Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-07-14


o. through the cOnnivance Of some Of
Che hill men and renegade Chinese was
never clearly determined. All that was
known was that Margary was attacked
near the village of Manwyne while tax
ing morning bath in a stream near the
place where he had passed the night,
and that he and four of his servants
were brutality murdered. only one of the
party escaping by the purest accident.
The bodies were fearfully muulated,
and there is strong reason TO believe
that Margary's head was publicly eX-
posed as q warning TO the other Tor
eign devils who were coming that way.
While this was occurring Colonel
Browne had been endeavOring TO make
some Roadway against the impalpa0le,
but none the less effective objects which
retarded his progress. He had even
gone 90 the length of pushing on with
out his baggage to see if he could not
secure pack animals and carriers IN an
other place But rumOrs OF an I'M
pending attack compelled him TO re
turn. and it was well that he did, for his
camp was soon surrounded by force
largely outnumbering that which he
had with him. and it was only by the
most vigorous efforts that he was able
to defend himself and TO effect a
RETREAT INTO BURMAH.
AS might well be Imagined, the kill
ing of NIargary's party created pro-
found sensation. The foreign cOmmu-
mites i'm China were most deeply
moved and il is safe TO say that If
England had a less patient ana less
s5inul representative than Sir IhOmas
Wade and one less we'll versed IN the
iutricacies of Chinese methods, the re-
suit might have been much more ser
ious and the map OF China might have
been different from what It Is to-day.
Even as il was. Sir Thomas patience
ON several occasions in the prouacted
and complicated negotiations which en-
sued came perilously near the vanish
ing point. At length, however, after
morothan wear S delay, the matter wa
settled by the payment of an indemnity
and by concessions on the part Of the
Chinese government In other directions.
Rur ft is q curious fact that the actual
rurderers of Margery were never pun
ished Tn the Investigation held on the
sn0- i'm the presence of English officials
esDeciaIly deputed for that purpose, a
number OF the ribesmen from the bOr-
der country were araigned as the MUIR
derers. bur the evidence brought for
ward was so inadequate and in some
particulars 50 ridiculOusly inconsistent
that Sir Thomas Wade was apparently
convinced that they were merely vic
time intended TO be offered mp in the
vicari0us manner peculiar TO Chinese
Justice At an events he did not insist
upon their punishment, but cOntented
himself with the degradation Of sew
eral Of The local officials whom he evil
IDENTIFY regarded as the real
AUTHORS OF THE OUTRAGE.
The country in whic poor Margary
met his fate has had a prominent placA
i'm many important events which have
been crowded into Chinese history since
that day. England has advanced
through Burmah. France through
Anam and Siam. until there is no long>
or even q vestige Of Chinese control
over those once sO-called tributaries. In
one sense Margery's death was cOnduc-
i've to- this end. At least it gave Eng
land the opportunity of compelling
China TO clearly define her relations to
Burmah. The control which China
once claimed TO exercise over the so
called tributary States was peculiarly
SUI GENERIS. The relations of her
officials to the people Of those countries
particularly i'm the provinces adjacent
To- them. are without parallel in West
ern methods The case of the Black
Flags Is am excellent example Of this.
These gentry are now said 70 be array
ed i'm force against the Japanese in For
mOsa. have their habitant very near to
the place where Nargary met his fate
In many respects they are like the al
leged renegade Chinese on whom the
Chinese government tried to fOist the
responsibility for his murder. The
frontiers OF the provinces of Yun-nan
and Ewang-si are even to-day in all es-
senual respects q TERRA INCOGNlIA
DO Europeans. It is there that China
touches AMMAN, Siam, Burmah, and
Thibet and while some white men have
travelled over those regions, we have
vet much TO learn of them and of their
people. So far as we know, the popu-
lation of these border lands is Of a
mixed description, Chinese in the as
cendeut but irterspersed with hillsmen,
some subject to China and others indie
pendent.
THE BLACK FLAGS
would probably be officially described
INV the Chinese government like Mar
oe~y's murderers as "renegades" They
are I'm fact said to be the survivors OF
the Taeping rebellion and fed to the
valley of the Red river in TOnQuln
where until 1870 they exercised COM
plete control having a tribal organiza-
tion dcbiefsof theirOwn. Thisma be
and probably is partly true, but IL is
even more probable that their number
has been increased by the acces ION OF
outl9ws and free hooters from the adj
iacent Chinese population and by inter-
mivtura with the border tribes near
Them Still whatever may be their
origin and present tribal organization
ono thing is very clear, and that IS thao
tbe,- are more warlike and formidable
rban any other Chinese force and IL Is q
curious fact that although they nave
freouentlv defed the authority of CHINA
thew have on other occasions rendered
her the most notable service. In 1919
they aided i'm eXpelling the French lrom
Hanoi Their most distinguished Lead
err was Iin-Yung-Fu.
He commanded them when they met the
force under Captain GARNER, and WITH
stood the sortie which resulted IN the
death of that officer. In 1882 they agaE
met the French under Riviere' ana IL
was in a skirmish with some OF their
number that that officer met his death.
THE CURIOUS NATURE