The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-07-19
Fight With Great FerOcity and In
hict FrightfuI TOr1ures.

Aict FriEhtfuI TOTtures.
Edouard SanteufI, IN an article in the
Paris Journal" predicted the awful fate
of the foreigners il Pekin and supported
his prediction BY a reference 10 the natural
cruelty of the Chinese He wrote:
China, so proud o: her civilization and
her arts. which honors family virtues and
gives the precedence to letters and science.
possesses by strange contrast record Of
the most ferocious cruelty in the accom-
plishment Of vengeance. Ii Is, therefore,
not without fear that one even thinks Of
the reprisals which China would be able 20
infict at this very moment on the foreign
ers established in her territory Above
everything else. the Chinese have the pas
sion for isolation, and 1t is carried even TO
fanatieism.
The Great Wall. which We look on as
al historical expression, exists still in the
eyes Of the Celestials- They have never
seen IL passed over without having rage
at heart. They have defended il often with
their own bodies, and II they ever hoped
. for the moment when they would be sufh-
GENTLY well armed to throw all the for
eigners into the sea one can be sure that
this operation. which has been predicted
with authority by Admiral COurbet. viii
be carried out by the Chinese with all the
refnements OF cruelty inspired by a blind
sentiment OF revenge
This explains. as il already appeared in
the terrible hours Of the TAPPING rebellion.
the incendiary fires. the massacres. and
murders with which have been begun the
insurrectiOn OF the Boxers whether au-
1 thOrized by the regular army and the In
perial Government or not. and which is
nothing else than q defiance Of the yellow
I race TO the other races. whose contact it
can no longer tolerate China for the Chi
nese, That cry has often been heard in
( this century, and always it was accom-
/ panied 10y the most frightful horrors. When
I the Chinaman. let him Be mandarin or
mendicant, ltterateur or wOrkingman
/ passes out OF his Industrious or passive
tranquility into action. he has no longer
/ any control Of himself-he sees red.
How many traits Of his barbarOus fury
/ have been shown in the last twenty years.
/ in the French conquests in southern China,
/ Woe 10 our civilian countryIuen who fell
/ into the hands of the Yellow or Black Pa
! vilions, Woe TO the prisoners or TO the
wounded they could surprise Often has
been related that terrifying forenoon al
I the Paper Bridge in Tonquin. when Com
mandant Riviere met death. and tortures
were inflicted on officers and soldiers who
could not escape in time.
Read over again, II you have sufficient
I courage for il, the martyrOlOgy Of the
} Christian missions. Protestant as well as
/ Catholic. There is at Paris. in the build
/ ing of the Foreign Missions. a hall where
/ are assembled the bloody proOfs-clo.hing
I pierced by knife blades. whole sets OF
{ teeth torn out. instruments Of torture
/ which would have made the Inquisition it
self SILVER.
} How could the Chinese deprive them
/ selves Of their pleasure in cruelties when
I they enjoy inficting it on their own coun-
! trymen2 Their judges have sanctioned the
| right TO submit accused persons to such
tortUres as whipping pulling out nails
I crushing ankles or fingers. and hanging DIV
I the c-r-S. among the f27 forms OF cruel
I treatment which they have invented. and
/ ws.ch they apply with horrifying delight
{ according to mere caprice.
Three forms of death. beheading
/ stranglirg, and garr01ing-do not suffice to
/ satisfy mem; there is also the slow death.
/ This execution lasts for several DAYS be-
J ginning with The faying OF the skin Of the
/ forehead, which the execUtiOner lowers
upon the eyes of the criminal in order L.
avoid his looks. The impassibility OF the
barbarians when abandoning themselves "a
/ these ahominabie moods is incredible. II
/ is equal to an absolute insensibility. II
! cases of war or of foreign invasiOns the
/ mandarins have the right TO infiict these
tortures whenever end IL The measure they
choose. But the furar OF the crowds pro-
| ceeds often in advance of the mandarin
order. The extreme pleasure which the yell
/ low race feels in the preparation Of these
crimes against humanity is shown in the
! capital itself on December IL in every year
II is the day which Is fixed for the annual
executions. which take place not in the