The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-10-13
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GHANISTAN.
(Fierce Asiatic ruler who hates the
E~uropeans.)
and then the innocent have suffered
with the guilty; that is to say. guilty
from an Oriental point Of view, for
in the eyes of the dusky races all
white men are of q kind, no distinc-
lions being recognized.
In the first war between England
and China the latter followed up
British provocation in connection with
the opium question by imprisoning
the English consul at Canton and
his colleagues, and holding them as
hostages. The second Chinese war
was in the same way signalized soon
after the outbreak of hostilities by the
arrest of the late Sir Harry Parkes
and the late Lord Loeb while bearers
of a flag of truce and engaged at Chi
nese headquarters in the negotiation
or terms OF peace. They were impri-
soned, subjected TO appalling tortures,
Inc escaped with their lives in a most
miraculous manner after prolonged
confinement, the European members
of their suite, including Mr.. Bowlby.
OF The London Times, being killed.
England's various wars with AT
ghanistan were characterized by SINH
lar outrages perpetrated upon the
members of the British diplomatic
mission at Cabul, and the murder of
Sir William M~acNaghten in the
Ameer's capital in the early portion
of Queen Victoria's reign was fol-
lowed in the latter part of the '70's
by the massacre of Sir Louis Cavag-
mari and his suite. The last English
war on the west coast of Africa was
embittered by the murder of the Eng
lish consul general at Benin. while in
the same way the British invasion OF
Abyssinia, a little more than thirty
years ago, was precipitated by the ac-
ton of the Negus in throwing the
English diplomatic agent and all the
foreigners at his capital into prison as
soon as he heard that the British gov
eminent had resolved to employ force
in order to bring him to terms.
1t is owing to this failure of the
Orlentals to observe the niceties of the
law of nations in matters of diplo-
matte procedure and in war that west
ern powers feel themselves relieved of
the necessities of a too strict obsery-
ance of the rules that govern warfare
among civilized nations. For in
stance, the A~nglo-French force which
seized Pekin forty years ago DELHI
erately reduced to ashes the world
famed summer palace of the Chinese
Emperors, filled with the most price
less treasures. This was considered
in the light of a perfectly justiiable
action on the part of the English and
French commanders; yet if in 1870
the Germans had as deliberately ap-
piled the torch to the palace of Ver-
sailles, and at the same time reduced
the Louvre to ruins, it would have
been regarded in the light of a most
~fnexcusable and barbarous piece of
vandalism, worthy of universal ex-
ecration,
1t could have been proved. in spite
of all denials, that during the last
Soudan campaign. there was much
shooting and b%ayoneting of wounded
Dervishes, the killing being done by
the black Soudanese battalion of the
Egyptian army, while appeals for
quarter and offers of surrender were
rejected, on the ground that a NAH
dist was less troublesome when dead
than alive. If this spirit of the black
troops sometimes communicated itself
to their white comrades it is not sur
prising, for the white as we'll as the
black soldiers of Lord Kitchener were
aware of the horrible fate that await
ed them in the event of their being
captured, besides realizing the fact
that a wounded .Dervish was at all
times ready to use his knife, even
upon the very surgeon who was tend
Ing his wounds or putting his water
gourd to the mans lips. In the war
which France carried on for so MANY |
years against the semi-independent
tribes of Southern China who under |
the name of the Black Flags infested
Tonquin every French soldier who fell |
into the hands of the enemy was put
to q most horrible death; and often
when arriving before some Black