Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-08-11

tury the Emperor Hung wa oxtermi-
/ mated noble family and sentenced 90
cruel deaths 1900 mon and women
. merely on suspicion of plotting against
. his throne.
an the cmperou OF China were chips
/ off the same block o. the historical
/ records are uuc-all cruel. relentless,
I meroilcs8. Even $50 late as 1913 during
. the reign OF Ka King. O. c0nspirator
. who came near Co selling the emperor
suffered death by the horrible process
/ of 'sII..ng' which consists in cutting
on small portions OF the cuiprIts body.
face or limbs 200 stated intervals until
Dee literally dies by inches This sumt
kia klns sent 10000 rebels To- the exec
cution block ana 10 was he who. iu 1916
because of some triHmr breach cs court
etiquette, refused 20 see Lord Amherst
and his embassy from England and
compelled them 20 retrace their steps
TO the coast in deep humiliation
Although the Chinese looked upon an
outside peoples as "barbarIang" and
their hatred of them was deeply ln-
grained they had not made them OBJ
jects OF attack except i1 certain spo-
radio cases of local origin. Always.
however there existed the hatred OF
Che native convert and many thou
sands ~ Chinese Christians have per-
ished hy lUe sword
When war broke out between Eng
land and China, about go years ago
the Chinese promptly offered rewards
for the heads of all Euglshmcn cap
tured a party Of six foreigners was
murdered near Canton in December
lSil and stray travellers were put to /
death wherever found but for all these l
0utragos the government was sioInly |
called to account and made 90 u8y in- I
IDENTITIES During the TAPPING r8bel- /.
lion the crueIties pracUCed were OF the I
most horrible description both by the /
rebels and the imperial troops. and |
proved cOuc'usively that mercy has no 1
part in the Chinese composition.
ono OF the first official acts OF /
Kwang-Su, the present emperor. was 20 I
order an indemnity of 100000 taels Tor
the murder Of an EnglIshman who was .
Killed IN a remote part of the empire. I.
followed by a proclamation that for
elgners should everywhere receive pro-
lection
In 1860 90 English subjects were TAX
on and tortured on the road from ITEM
tsin 10 Picking Thirteen Of them died
from their injuries. The Chinese gov.
eminent disavowed all responsibility .
for or connection with this act, as 10
dId for the later horrible massacre al
Tlen-tsIn but &c was forced TO award
compensation and punish the alleged /.
The Tien-tsin outrage /.
was The first attempt upon the lives OF
unarmed foreigners which had reached
Che proportions ot a massacre in many
years. To took place In June. 1870 but
% few months after the death OF Alr
BurIugame. who was then on his fa-
nous mission OF peace in behalf OF
China 90 foreign lands 10 may have
been occasioned Indirectly 10y The ln-
ayitable rcyulsion Go which Cinnamon
are subject whenever they have made
amy concession to foreign opinion. but
was directly owing 20 the fanatcism OF
he lower class people Of Tian-tsin.
As many Of the children 90 the found
ling asylum conducted by the Sisters of
Mercy had died Of au epidemic % was
given out that they had been murdered
.0r the sake of their eyes. which were
10 boz transmitted into silver This abb !
surd story was believed. and the fa-
latIcs attacked aud destroyed the orr
IhauaHp. cathedral and Tr.nfh r,UstIf.