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dressed to the yiceroys of the various
/ provinces.
Edict of the Empress.
The foreign power cast upon us
looks of tiger-like voracity, hustling
each other in their endeavors to be
the frs to seize upon our innermost
territories" she declared. "They fail
to understand that there are certain
thing which this empire can never
consent to do, and that if hard pressed
we have no citernative but to rely
upon the justice of our cause"
Four weeks later another edict was
dispatched to the same officials by the
dowager empress, who, according to
widespread belief in the orient, has
English or American blood in her
veins, her mother having been
Eurasian, or child of white ether,
| and Manchu mother. In this second
edict the viceroys were warned to ex-
crcise prudent discrimination toward
disturbers of public peace. "The
reckless fellows" who band together
and create riot on TIE pretext OF Sc
curing the inaugr- otion of reforms,
were to be punished, while those
loyal subjects who learn gymnastic
drill for the protection of sheir fami-
lies and their country" that is to say,
the members of the Righteous Har-
mony Fists Association, were to be
favored. This was the first heard of
the so called Boxers" openly a So
ETY. for the cultivation of gymnastics,
secretly an anti-foreign political
movement, something like those Turn.
Verein c. gymnastic societies which
played so in portant political role in
Germany at the beginning of the
present century, becoming one of the
most important factors in the liberia
tion of the fatherland from the pres
snce of the French invader From that
time forth the so-called Boxers" were
more or less openly encouraged by the
empress. They became means oe
union among all the various secret So
cieties in all parts of the immense
Chinese empire are simultaneously TAX
ing to arms to excel the foreigners, it
is due to the cleverness of the old EN-
press, who is thus at the close of the
nineteenth century emulating the role
played nearly 100 years ago by Queen
Louise in Prussia, when she reused her
coUntrymen to rid Germany of the
tI~2ldom of Napoleon.
Immense Armies Needed.
There is every reason to believe thai
on this occasion the dowager empress
has at her back, not merely her Mancnu
retainers, but all China, and China, as
stated above, contains a teeming and
SETTLING population of more than i00,-
100000, who are almost insensible t.
rain, and are imbued with fierce hatred
Of foreigners, and have no fear d
death. To cope with the yellow peril, |
naval and especially military forces, Of /
? colossal character will be require ]. |
1t is true that both Canton and Pekin |
were occupied some forty years ago, by |
an allied Franco-English army of d.
900 or 10000 men. But I will remem- |
Der the l"te Sir Harry Parks, who ac-
conpanied the commanding general as |
chief interpreter, explaining to me long |
afterward at Toxic, that Canton and |
Pekin were such immense cities that
the Anglo-French forces only occupied |
a very small quarter thereof, and that |
the remainder of the two cities were 60 |
little under their control that each |
morning the heads Of those European |
soldiers who had str;y'ed beyond the |
Gordon of sentinels during the night |
would be hurled from neighboring
houses into the Anglo-French lines.
Indeed, the so-called seizure of these !
immense capitals was so ineffective
that not one in thousand Cinnamon |
will admit that it really took place, |
and have even some Chinese friends |
who were living at Pekin at the time of |
its occupation, who have pledged ne |
by all that they held sacred that the |
story must be untrue, seeing that they |
never set eyes on French or English |
soldier at the time alleged. Moreover. |
Chinese history ascribes the destruction |
of the celebrated summer palace, not to |
the French and English troops, as was
really the case, but to Divine agencies,
as punishment of sacrilege on the part
of one of the members of the imperial |
family.
Japanese or Russian Invasion.
There are only two powers that are !
really in position to invade Chinese
territory at the present moment, and to
place large armies in the field, namely |
Japan and Russia. The latter has
probably at the present moment about
100000 soldiers stationed at Vladivo- |
stock, Port Arthur, and along the
southeastern frontier of Siberia, japan,
on the other hand, has an army of at
least twice that number of men SIS
sembled at various points on the east
ern coast of the mikado's empire, ready
for immediate transport across the
small stretch of sea that separates
Japan from China. The Toxic govern
ment threatens to throw an army of
several hundred thousand men into Ko-
rea and China, If the Russians march
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