Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-23
IMPORTANT Information
CONTAINED IN LETTERS JUST RE
CEIvED FROM NORTH
CHINA
BY A MARIETTA. O.. MINISTER
TROUBLES ACCURATELY FORECAST
BY THE WRITER.
A Translation of a Curious Placard,
Three Thousand of Which Were
Distributed In Tien Tsin alone ON
June 4th.

Special to the Register.
MARIETTA, O., July 22.-Rev. Chas.
Stanley, Congregational missionary to
Tien Tsin, who, with his wife, is now
at home in Marietta, after sojourn of
eighteen years in China, is in receipt
| OF letters covering the period from
| June 9th to June 18th, and indicating
| the safety of his daughters. Mrs. Wilder
| and Mrs. Cannon, who We're then pre-
| pairing to leave Pekin and who subse-
quently reported their arrival at
| Shanghai.
The letters all tell the same story of
the hideous indignities and death in
| ficted upon the helpless native Chris
| tians and missionaries, and are strong
| in denunciation of the imperial gov
| eminent for giving open encourage
ment to the Boxers. James f. Gam
mon, writing under date OF June 9th,
| referring to the thousands of Boxers
then assembled about Tien Tsin. says:
s'They must meet with good foreign
troops to receive the only lesson that
will be effective. We feel confident
| that the powers will be driven to war,
| as the Chinese are favoring this rebel
| lion as much as ever, as you can see
| from the translation of the recent sa
\ cred edict. General Mich is the only
, man who has really tried to fight with
| the rebels, and now he is TO be sum
moned by the Board of Punishment,
while Tung Flu Hsiang, the most anti
foreign general they have and the one
who has done most to encourage this
| uprising, Is appointed to settle matters
''In fact, the officials are showing
| Plainly and Openly
that they wish the Boxers success,
while lives and property are being daily
sacrificed by mobs. The Chinese are
| terrified. Our servants, as soon as we
| begin to talk of their going to a GER
| tain compound Ger protection in case
of an attack, Immediately wanted to
leave, but we told them thar if they
left now they need not come to us
again in time of peace, The natives
east of the river are moving to the
| city, while people in the city are fleeing
to the country, just as they did during
the Japanese war.
| Il do hope that the United States
and other nations will not hesitate to
| flood the country with troops at once
and before this trouble can spread.
June 10th.-Late last night tele-
grams were received from the minis
tiers saying that Picking was in a most
serious condition, the foreigners lives
in danger and fighting probable, and
asking that as many troops be sent at
| once as possible
Here the writer tells the story of the
start of the ill-starred
Relief Expedition
| which left Tien Tsin confident of
| pushing through to the Chinese capital
without delay. He speaks in the high
est terms of Captain MeCalla, and how
| the intrepid American officer stood UP
| in the midnight council and said he
was going to Peking alone, how the
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| with him, and how the French and
| Russians and others were overcome
with shame in the morning, and join
ed the expedition.
British and all residents here
acknowledge he continues, that our
| Captain McCalla is a marvel, that he
put the settlement here in defense in
speedy and skillful manner, and that
he is the finest officer that could pos
| sibly have been landed to deal with
complications of this kind. He has
the highest praise, have ever heard
| given to any officer so generally by his
own men as we'll as by residents. That
| his prompt action and clear insight
warded Off a fatal attack on Tien Tsin
no one can doubt.
! June 12.-Some fear general
! massacre in Picking, especially if the
| foreign troops are resisted. Boxers
are stalking the streets there, wearing
red bands and Furnishing knives. All
! the missionaries have united in the
! Methodist compound and the minis
tiers have all gone to the British lega-
| ton. Iien Tsin is safe, | think, as in
case of war it will be military base.
| Thousands of Chinese are fleeing and
! the streets are crowded with household
| goods, while southern men are moving
back to Shanghai or elsewhere |
never saw such scare. AT night
| there is
| Death-Iike Stiffness
which never existed in my time. No
respectable Chinese show their faces at
night.
The Hsien has issued a proclama-
ton which is remarkable, for it as
sumes that the attack on Tien Tsin
is inevitable. He says the Boxers are
coming and that foreign soldiers are
walking the streets; therefore, he w.trns
| people who are not Boxers to remain
| indoors, since there will be fighting.
| He does not forbid the Boxers, but
rather encourages them, and this is a
sample of what the Chinese officials
| are doing.
-Four wounded Boxers were brought
| in to-day. One of the medical students
gave me the Boxer insignia worn NV
one of the dying men. It is an apron
of bright red cloth about one and one
| half feet square. One of the wounded
is but Is years old, while the one who
| had the apron is but Is years Old and
| has been Boxer only ten days 1t is
| thus that these infamous leaders are
! filling their ranks with young BOYS,
l uyho houa 70 cuff, a-L Al. e.