The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-20

| new reform party in the two Kwang and
II trouble breaks out there the response
| oility for 1t will lie at the door OF the
Chinese Independent Association, which
| has declared in its formal manifesto that
| " the association no longer regards the
Manchu Government as fit to administer
| China, and that the duty of the associates
| is to remodel the old China and constitute
new China; (2) that the association aims
| at restoring the Emperor Kwang Hsu TO
| administrative power and establishing a
constitutional empire; 90 that the asso-
cations policy is to combine with the al
lied foreign States. to control all acts OF
violence. and to punish all advocates OF
| ani-foreign measures: (D that the asso-
cation VIII endeavor to protect the foreign
settlements and places of worship and the
| lives and properties of foreigners, and to
| prevent all disturbances.
The aims of the association are we'll
| enough, but it is taking means to achieve
them that can only result in further aim
| less violence, making common cause with
bandits. and even the notorious Black Fla,
| chief, Yau Lii, and antagonizing the Off
Gals who would protect the reformers SO
long as their activity was peaceful. That
there IS a strong reactionary party in
Canton is shown by the fact that the three
native newspaper offices there were looted
for publishing reports Of the taking OF
Pekin by the allies.
On Tuesday afternoon those on the
Bund In the vicinity of the p and o. jetty
were treated to a rather curious spectacle,
and were enabled to realize to some ex-
tent what the looting of Tientsin meant.
Large pieces OF metal. mostly silver,
twisted and gnarled, were being conveyed
from the Hongkong Bank and placed on
the jetty. The metal was brought down
frt-l Taku some time ago This lot twen-
ty-elght pieces, some weighing $50 to 300
pounds; Is portion of the 1s9 tons saved
from the native city OF Tientsin, and was
banked by the military authorities in the
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank for the ben
eft of the forces engaged at the taking Of
Tientsin.
Some of the masses, which are partly
fused, assumed most grotesque shapes. In
some the sycee shoes are almost intact,
the chops being legible, and are held to-
gether by twisted rolls of dollars, which
have fused and blended in one concrete
mass of bricks, pieces Of stone, and char
coal, iron hoops, and gold bars. The lot
is to be shipped to Japan. and will be con-
signed to the melting pot and re-assayed
The Imperial Osaka Mint has undertaken
the contract
Outside the walls of the yamen of the
Shanghai magistrate in the native city on
Monday man was being exhibited in a
wooden cage similar to that in which the
desperate Chang Changwo was lately tor
tured to death. 1t is made of four posts.
with board or cangue at the top, In
which is hole through which the mans
head is exposed. There are, however, no
bricks for the unfortunate man to stand
on, as in Chang Changwo's case. 50 there
Is reason to hope that he strangled to
death more speedily. The weight Of the
body In this Internal machine is thrown
upon the back of the head and the Jaws,
the cangue lifting the body until it is
poised on the toes.
THE yamen runners said that the
prisoner was the head Of a gang named
the Kwangtan c'Bald Egg'). This gang
has terrorizei the neighborhood Of Shang-
hal for some time back, but the barbarfc |
punishment of its leader is none the less
horrifying, and serves to show that in
point Of inhumanity the southern China
man has little to learn from his northern
brother"