The evening times., 1900-07-28
BY ANOTHER NAME
The Genus Boxer Not Alone Confined
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Qrom the LCudon EXpross.)
British Boxers," exclaims tjle reader.
incredulOusly. ''Nonsensel'
But il was not nonsense. Far crom it
England has had Boxers galore: only We
have not called them Boxers. but 'Iud-
dites," "Rebeccaites, - ~Chartists,' or lust
plain rioters"
London had a taste Of what this latter
variety Of the genus could accomplish in
February. 1856, when the mob RACED for
TWO hours through the principal West End
streets, smashing windows. breaking into
and ransackirg jewelers. shops, attacking
and robbing private carriages and mall
treating any weIl-dressed individuals they
chanced 10 meet Later on, again. on No
vembe- I3 1887. Trafalgar Square was held
against them with difficulty by several
thousand police mounted and on foo-. and
in reserve the First Life Guards.
There are plenty of people now living
who can remember all too yividly how the
Luddites" terrorized DeIhyshire Laaca-
shire. Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, and
other countries For the space o. two
whole years in the affected areas, no
mans life was safe from the vengeance Of
King Ludd'' and his henchmen. and it
was only after sixty -four OF them had been
executed in 'one gigantic batch that the
horrors came to an end. Thirty years Ia. er
occurred the curious '.Rebecca" riots,
mostly in Wales. the special object OF the
-ioters being the destruction Of all turn
pixies throughout the principally
The s'Chartists" are typical Boxers
Their intentions at the outset were good
and their demands by no means unreason-
able. Yet whenever they managed TO get
t. upper hand frightful scenes were in
variably enacted At Bristol they broke
open the prisons set fire TO the Mansion
House, the Bishops palace. and more than
a hundred private dwellings, and murdered
and piIlaged to their hearts content Sim
liar scenes were repeated elsewhere. At
Birmingham, in one short summer night
July 10, 1880. wen nigh incalculabIe
damage was done
Belfast has had its own special Boxers
and anti-Boxers almost from time imme-
mortal They are known locally as Orange
men and Catholics and always at the
slightest provocation, often at none at all
they fly at one anotherss throats, burn one
another's houses. and act generally after
the most approved Boxer fashion the world
over Their last great outbreak was in
1886, when eleven Of the combatants lost
their lives and over zoo were wounded.
Prior to that, however, several other
similar scenes were enacted, and always
with like results In E64, when the fun
was started by the unNeiiing IN Dublin Of
the O'Conneu monument, nine people were
killed outright and $50 were injured; and in
1872 property to the value of G 12O. 900 was
wantonly destroyed. 1t is doubtful wheth-
er the Chinese Boxers have done very
much worse than this at Tientsin
The self-styled Skeleton Army was an
organization whose pet aversion was the
Salvation Army In 1884 these religious (o-
perhaps il would be more correct to say
anti-religious1 Boxers created great dis
turbances at GraeeSend WorthiuR BRIGHT
on, and elsewhere, and later on East
bourne was the scene Of even more vio.ent
riotfng. In which many Salvationists were
badly hurt At Tredegar, in Monmouth
shire, however. the men of blood and FIRE
turned the tables on their assaiIants, who
were mostly Irish laborers. For three
whole days and nights the Boxers (Ske,e-
tons) held their own. but eventually the
pertinacity OF the other side oyercame their
resistance, the quarter OF the town in
which the aggressors lived was sacked, and
they themselves were driven ignominously
forth into the open country. A few days
latef six hundred Of them had to be trans
ported back to Ireland at the expense of
the Government