The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-09-14

hfiang, Sung Ching, Men Sze-eh eng
etc. being under his command. Under
these circumstances the power of the
Chinese party was actually nil, and
they could only, once in awhile, per-
suade the empress dowager to issue q
decree or two ordering suppression OF
the Boxers or cenSuring them for their
misdeeds. But this was only when the
arci-conspira Kang vi, happened
to be away from Pekin. Hence we
have an explanation Of the curious
phenomenon of one day there appear
ing a decree ordering the suppression
of the Boxers and on the next day of
another one, exactly opposed to its pre-
decessor, praislng up the Boxers, call
ing them patriots" and ordering COM
pensaton to be paid them for their
bravery and loyalty"
AT the beginning of the outbreaks
outside of Pekln, when the Boxers were
engaged in Staying and pillaging native
converts and setting fire to their
churches and homes, the Boxers did
not dare to venture to appear openly
! inside the city walls, especially as at q
council at Eho park, held on the 9Th of
1 June, before the empress doWager, the
/ Chinese party had, by strong argu-
ments, persuaded her to appoint two Of
their number--viz, Chao Shu-chi'ao
and Ho Jun-sheng, governoradjoint
! and governor respectively of the impe-
/ rial prefecture of Shuntienfu Pekin
| prefecture), to the high commissioners,
1 and In her name go to the Boxer en-
campments at Liangshiang and Cho-
| chou 1.-TWO district cities a few miles
from Pel1in) and dispense the outlaws.
Should this order be opposed the Box
| ers We're to be suppressed by force of
General Nieh's troops outside Pekin.
The Manchu party at this particular
council happened to be in the minority
and so the two Chinese got appointed
and started on the morning of June 6
on their mission. Kang vi, however
| heard of this, and, fearing that these
| two members Of the Chinese party
might possibly spoil all his cherished
plans of mascacreing all the foreigners
within Pekin he persuaded the empress
doWager to allow him to go after the
two Chinese commissioners, as he was
afraid that Choa Shu-ch'lao, the head
commissioner, would not be capable Of
doing what was required" Hence
Kang vi left Pekin on his own mission
that same afternoon, which was to tell
the Boxers to go on and continue their
work, as they had the approval of the
empress dowager.
In the meanwhile the Eansu troops
under Tung Fu-hsiang had hitherto
been quartered in the Southern Hunt
ing park, about forty Ii south of Pekn.
IL. L. /. 4.
to be rumored about that the empress
dowager had sent a secret decree to
General Tung commanding him to
bring in his troops to Pel1in. In other
words, Kang vi had met Tung Flu
hsiang outside of Pekin by that time)
This rumor proved true, for on the
morning of the 9th of June the adj
vanced guards of General Tung Flu
hsiang appeared inside the city and be-
gan selecting quarters for their general
and his forces. On the same day the
Kansu troops streamed into the streets
of Pekin in great numbers. Then. also,
Boxers were seen to be invading Peklh
deluging the city, as the day passed, in
their thousands and tens of thousands,
so that by the next day armed ana UNI
formed Boxers with long swords in
their hands stallsed openly about the
streets. a menace to all, Before this
the ordinary Chinese population of the
city all thought that the empress dow
ager would surely suppress the Boxers
working their savagery outside of Pc
kin, and were surprised and almost
panic-stricken when they saw armed
Boxers and outside troops entering and
f.,,, . . A boil ir1N
The Boxers now openly spoke out what
their mission in Pekin was to be, which
was to exterminate all foreigners in
the capital first, and then drive those
on the seacoast and forts into the sen.
The Boxers lost no time in showing
that they were in earnest and that they
were the masters of the situation, for
on that day they entered Pekin en-
masse (June 10Y, while a number of
them were at the Yungting gate of the
city telling the gaping crowd around |
them what they were going to do with |
the foreigners, an officer, stranger in |
Pekin, of the rank Of general, named |
Yao and a native of Anhul, who, in off,
cial hat and robes was riding past |
(having come from Shensi for an impe-
rial audience), attempted to stop the !
graggadocio of the Boxers, and cried |
out to the populace: Don't believe |
and oil the foreign powers are at peace.
Such deeds must never be" For re-
ply the Boxers around cried out: "Ehr !
Mao-tze" or Cor second-grade foreign
err. and Immediately pulled the unfor-
tunate general of his horse some
his official rat, others tearing
his robes to pieces, and others again
striking him with their sword hits and
clubs. Immediately afterward they |
dragged their victim. already more
dead than alive, to a neighboring |
Tan" or altar of the Boxers patron |
saint, ito work the oracle" and ask
what to do with the blasphemer. |
Death" replied the oracle, and min
ute afterward the unfortunate general |
was q headless corpse.
1t was on June 10 that the Boxers |
first attacked the legations. The for
eign troops replied with a couple of vol
leys stretching eight of them dead in |
the streets and wounding many others,
Whereupon the rest of the Boxers rap {
idly retreated from Legation street.
They then came on mission COM
pound, east of the legations, which had