Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-10-04
A CHINESE VIEW OF 1T.
rO.. the Work of Christians II Re.
EarsirG in the Celestial Empire
Il hinc>e Bravery.

IT, Europeans are beginning 30 fnd
OUT that after al The Cele>t ial j. not
such bad soldier. says a Chicago en-
change. Lieut.. Won krohn. Wing
wounded in the German hospital a.
Yokohama, Whittier he was brought
from Taku. is very positive on that
point. He thinks. according 10 a loca.
paper which has interviewed him. that
they are splendid material. and if they
had good officers would proba bly, be in
Nincible. Elsewhere he SAYS that
Everybody in general has very greatly
underestma the quality of the Chi
nese troops. 1t would be utter folly TO
think that with an army of forty. fifty
or even hundred thousand the allied
forces could reach peking but force
of at least 100000 and especially a large
force of artillery and cavalry and
carefully planned campaign will be
necessary to attain that end"
Incidentally Lieut.. Won krohn lets
us see how beautifully our Christian
humanity and civilization compares
with the raw ferocity of the Boxers:
AS far as the capture of prisoners is
coneerned,' he says. this is an mpos-
sibility. as the Chinese are not civilized
enough for that kind of warfare. I'm
Ger the circumstances of the present
warfare in China the allies have been
and probably will be in the future COM
PEELED 10 kill the wounded with the bay
onet. In the beginning they even sent
wounded to the hospital at Tientsin.
but they soon found out that as long
as a man was able TO raise hand he
would try and stab the foreigners: and
as. moreover. they found the prisoners
very refractory and had all they could
do to attend to themselves. they were
compelled to kill all wounded with baN-
onetS and. generally speaking. accept
no prisoners. but TO kill every body that
stood up against them"
Even the anger of he throne. feeble
and at the same time bombastic as it
often is in China. becomes almost sub
lime in View of the unparalleled atfront
of raku. The reScript. which is in the
name of the emperor. of course. tells
with a good deal of ability and clear
ness how many benefits the Chinese
government conferred on the forei~n-
ers. how it permitted them to trade
with the Chinese. how it permitted
them to send their missionaries among
the people though the latter did not
want them. Bat lately the foreigners
had nSnrp2d territory and pundered
the people of China by force. and in so
doing they had insu,ted the empire.
rs a result their churches had been
destroyed and their missionaries muir
oered. The government had done it's
best to protect foreigners and had is
sued instructions for the protection of
the legations i'm Picking and the rescue
OF the missionaries. Despite this action
the foreigners. needless of the benevo-
Tent intentions of the government. had
demanded With display of force the
Wit hdrawa! of the Chinese 1roops from
the Iaku forts. At this point the writ
err OF the rescript seems to lose con-
tro! of himself. or herself. We "so,-
EMMY and with tears declare" he cries
THAT we will carry on this war to th,
bitter end rather than suffer this TO-
Monty and live. Oh. hear We. our loval
and patriotic subjects and people.
Come in hundreds of thousands from
Chilli and Shant,lng and assemble in
the imperial capital. for it is our inten-
ton to fight with the enemy for our
20 provinces and their 100000. 900 in
babitant>.
In Pharaoh or Il Babylonian mon
arch this ou,burst would be considered
fire. and The Chinese empire is contem
porarN of the empire of the pharaohs
and the empire of the l;abylonians and
should consequently have the same
privileges. In hundred years the
blood -"uIltiness, the trcachery. the
want of faith. the craft the mendacity
and the cruelty viii. have been forgot
ten and people will look back on the
last struggle OF the oldest empire that
the world ever say with sympathy. adj
mration and pity.