Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-07-05
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English or American blood in her
veins, her mother having been a
I Eurasian, or child Of a white father,
and Manchu mother. In this second
G-Ic1 the viceroys were warned to ex-
{ else d prudent discrimination toward
tie disCurbers Of public peace. The
reckless fellows" who band together
a-u o-cate riot on the pretext of Sc
curing the Inauguration of reforms,
were to be punished, while those
loyal subjects who learn gymnastic
drill for the protection of their fami-
lIas and their country" that is to say,
the members Of the Righteous Har-
H.ouy Fists Association, were to be
favored. This was the first heard Of
tle So-caIIed Boxers" openly a So
Getty for the cultivation of gymnastics,
secretly an antI-foreign political
movement, something like those Turn
! Nerein or gymnastic societies which
played SO important a political role in
I Germany at the beginning of the
present century, becoming one of the
most important factors in the liberia
tiCn of the f2therIand from the pres
ence of the French invader From thar
: time forth the sO-caIled Boxers" were
! more or less openly encouraged by the
empress. They became means o.
union among all the various secret So
cicties in all parts OF the immense
/ Chinese empire are simultaneously TAX.
| ing to arms to excel the foreigners, il
! is due TO the cIeverness 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
| thraldom Of Napoleon.
Immense Armies Needed
There is every reason to believe thai
on this occasion the dowager empress
has al her back, not merely her Mancnu
reJaners, but all China, ana China, as
stated above, contains a teeming and
| seething population of more than 100,-
! 600 900, VINO are almost insensible t.
pain, and are imbued with fierce hatred
of foreigners, and have no fear OF
death. To cope with the yellow peril,
naval, and especially military forces, of
a colossal character will be required.
1t is true that both Canton and Pekin
were occupied some forty years ago, by
an allied FrancO-English army of d.
600 or 10000 men. But | will remem-
Der the late Sir Harry Parks, who ac-
cOmpanied the commanding general as
chief interpreter, explaining to me long
afterWard at TOXIC that Canton and
PelSin were such immense cities that
the AnglO-French forces only occupied
very small quarter thereof, and that
the remainder Of the two cities were 90
little under their control that each
morning the heaus Of those European
soldiers who had stT,sed 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 lie
by all that they held sacred that the
story must be untrue, seeing that they
never set eyes on a 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 a 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
100, 900 soldiers stationed at VladiyO-
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 as
! 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
OF Pekin, and in the same way the
| cars representatives declare that Il
Japan moves they will Immediately
| occupy the northern provinces O.
! China. The other powers concerned.
! namely, England, France, Germany,
! and the United States, have no MI
/ tarv forces adequate or near enough TO
/ deal with the matter promptly, e5pe-
! cial1y in so far as any effective Steps
! toward the protection of the life AID
! the property of their fellow-country-
| men are concerned. Yet, they are re
! luctant to intrust either of the UwO
powers in question with the task, or to
accept their offers or service. For
Japan is not only non-Christian and
thoroughly Asiatic nation, imbued with
the hatred for the white man common
to all yellow races, but is also pos
sessed by the most aggressive ambi-
tons only to be satisfied at the ex-
pense of the western powers. The idea
Of Japan is to obtain a preponderan7
influence in China, to secure differen-
tiaI duties in her favor in such way as
to close the Chinese market to all other
foreign nations, and to drill the Chi
nese army so as to become a weapon for
the furtherance Of her dreams Of gran
deur. In one word, there is no positive