The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-29
FROM A CHINESE DIARY
The Boxer Outbreak aud the Murder
OF EoTciSUers

The Boxer Outbreaks aud the zErrdei
OF Foreigners.
VICTORIA, b. c., Aug. 29.-The NORTH
China Daily News received by the steam
er Empress of China publishes the follow
ing Diary of Events in Pekin'' from the
pen Of Chinese official holding high po-
sltIon in one of the six boards in Pekin
embodied in a letter to his family, living
in the vicinity of Shanghai:
10 give You all at home an idea Of the
trend Of events, which have led to the
present debacIe in Pekin. YOU must know
! that the Boxer organization had its origin
III Sh2ntung Province where also the first
disturbances began, and which gradually
spread into Chill Province, during the
spring OF the present year
News reached US in the middle of Nav
last that the Boxers had seized the city of
| Cho-C Chan. some fifty miles southeast of
Pekin, murdered the officials there. and
! mad begun &c tear up and destroy the rail
ways Our Emperor, on hearing OF these
! outTages, desired to suppress these Box
! ers, but the high ministers in power at
| the court were deyout believers in the po-
/ tehcy or the Boxers and strongly stood up
| Tor them before the Throne On Nav 81
uns Fun Slang had an audience OF the
throne, and upon being questioned stood
I - '>A+N N~Stl'ttu al Responsibility III the
war OF determination of foreigners, which
! ne strongly advocated stalking his word
Oh MS AFFINITY III successfully combating the
foreign powers. The result was that in
stead OF ordering the suppression of the
! Boxers, the policy of the Government was
| suddenly changed and an Imperial decree
WAS Immediately issued appointing Kang
" and ChZa Shu Chfao Imperial High
CoLhlnlssloneEE TO organize the Boxers in
the vicinity OF Pekin, and bring them IN
| der Government control
During this crisis the various foreign
powers also sent some four hundred odd
troops into Pekip TO protect their Ieza
lions.
By June 4 the Boxer outlaws had beeun
TO tear up and destroy the railway between
feKlD and iientsin and from that day
| also began to enter the city walls OF Pekip
crowding at the rate of a thousand a day
AFFAIRS gathering places for ecruits. erc1
were erected by them all over the city at
TINS time; also these outlaws began tho
wholesale slaughter of Christians and
turning OF churches outside of Pekin. until
none OF the latter had been left standing.
AS many as could escape among the Chris
liahs then poured into the capital taking
refuge III the legations situated in the
iuhs-Chia- Ming Street, otherwise known
as legation Street. This state of affairs.
may say, existed in the capital during
the hFst DAYS of June from which tina I
oesah TO Jot down the following diary of
events as they occurred before nv own
me ~
NhIle number OF Boxers were al the
luhg-IIng gate of the city telling tbe can
ing cro%d what they were going 10 do With
me foreigners an officer, General Yao a
native OF Nagan-HOe, who in osfcfa! hat
anu iotes was riding past, having come
rom shanghai for an Imperial audience.
attempted 10 stop the braggadocio of the
boxers and cried 10 the pupuIace:
Don't re rash- China and an the nov
slS are at peace Such deeds can never |
FOR reply the Boxers pulled the unfor- /
innate general from his horse, some smash
iAs MS nat others tearing his robes and
many STRIKING him with clubs and sword
mus Immediately they dragged him To
d HelShoo.lng altar OF the Boxers 10 work
tne oracle, TO what was 10 be done with !
the blaspherleF.' DEATH replied the or
acle. minute afterward the unfortunarA
general was headless corpse Of the
thousand horTor-stTickeu Dystanders around
o On one man, military officer, named Ii
OF the permanent garrison ar Pekin. al {
tempeted TO save the generals life. Tho
boxers tried 10 get hold OF him also. and
ne only saved his life by the swiftness of
me morse he rode This was the first act
OF bloodshed by the Boxers.
III June II occurred the murder of
japanese Chancellor Sugiyama BY the Box
er brothers-TGng Fun Siang's Kansu
troops The unlueky chancellor attempted
10 leave Pekin by the Yung-Ting gate in
order TO meet Admiral Seynour's relief
force which was known TO be on its wav
10 the capital from Tientsin. and which
was apparently expected TO reach pekfr
that day. Sugiyama rode in {. cart wirb
broad red band around the body. deno1iug
mat me occupant was of at least 200 rank
W zen he arrived at the Yung-T Ting gate he
was acccsted by number of Tung Fun
74ahsS men, who were guarding IL II
seemed that Prince Tuan lad that dac
given secret orders that no foreigner v-as
o be allowed either to leave the city or
inter ii. He was therefore stopped and
lsked who he was. Susiyama told them
ie was member Of the japanese Legation.
Are you the japanese Minister
No; am only chancellor of the
:" Then what right have you. petty
'ftieer like that, to ride IN such a high
ficial's caro- :
so they pulled him out Of his cart and !
egan 10 rob the unIucky chancellor. SugI- ]
anna then demanded 10 be brought before :
zen. Tung Fuh Slang
What. You TO speak 10 our great gen ,
raj why, you are too insignificant 10 :
ave such an honor
At last, however, a red buttoned Kans,,
ff1eer appeared on the scene, to whom ,,
appealed for help Instead OF ;
living aid the ruffian merely ordered The \
apanese ChaneelloT's head 10 be struck !
II as a sacrifice TO their war banner and l
tuck near the gate for trying to break
ut Of Pel6in- Sugiyama was the first :
2relgner murdered inside Pekfn r
The great mass of the population of
ekin were greatly alarmed at these +
icodthirsty proceedings, and all were ex- !
Getting that the Empress Dowager would I
how disapproval of the murder of the h
3panese Chancellor. belonging to a friend l.
: State, and the member OF an embassy.
Ut the Manchus one and all, were jubi-
INT when they heard Of the murder. Fin e
lily, the official seal of approval from the :
ighest quarter for this dastardly murder fl
as made by Prince Tuan, who, when he $
let Gen. Tung Fuh Slang the next morn Il
lg. slapped the latter on the back. and c
aising his right thumb called out 'Hao,' c
iood!' The raising of the thumb denotes :
lie person addressed is first class i
CURRENT EUMOR.
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