The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-08-10

ing the powers and giving more time for
the terrible resistance that was 10 be
arranged.
The Japanese ministers regarding the
situation In the Orient as very serious. bur
are not slow in saying that IL Japan had
been given a free hand in the first place
she would not have been slow In nipping
the trouble in the bud, before 1t had come
10 its present complicated stage. The Chi
nese, he said, now had all the chances in
their own favor, and they were not slow
In taking advantage of the arrangements
that allowed them 10 gain unfair achieve
ments.
Streets Paved With Bullets.
Rev Jonathan Lees. of the London Mis-
sionary Society, arrived from Tientsin to-
cay, on the Empress. To reporter who
saw him he displayed Mauser bullet.
Tientsin was paved with these while
was there" he said. In vindication OF the
character Of the Chinese converts. Mr..
Lees stated that they were the only ma
lives who would work under fire. and
that they built all the street barrica1 les
In Tfentsin amidst a rain of bullets They
were most useful, too, In doing the mental
work Of the hospitals when the others
refused duty. As might be expected Mr.
Leese blames the people who have sold
opium. arms and ammunition to China, the
nations that have tried to seize Chinese
territory. and, above all. the diplomats.
who. he says. are babies in the hands If
the Chinese statesmen. for the present
trouble which ~ Is rather the fashion to
charge the missionaries with causing As
an instance of how little the European
representatives know OF the native rulers,
Re mentioned that the, very day before
Peking closed Sir Claude Macdonald had
persuaded some ladies who were Visiting
him, and who wished to leave, that there
was no danger and they might as wen
stay. Like almost all who come from
China. Mr.. Lees has no faith whatever
IN the ASSURANCES of the safety of the
Europeans at Picking. 1.-THE whole teie-
graphic service Is in Chinese hands. and
20 lar b,s nave not heard that cipher tele-
These are significant facts" he says
hope. they are safe. but It is hope
against hope. hope that has no faith
In my opinion the Chinese are making a
series Of bluffs and preparing for grand
coup. They are waiting until they have a
quarter OF a million OF men from The
sus IN s game may b Be h mad game
outbreak OF Is7o. and / know whoreof n" I
SPEAK Twice ! have seer. the. labors of
y ,ha essroyed-apparently destroyed
And here the earnest old man who had
given the best years OF his life to his
no more I e. aaded Later We can az
return. to begin It all over again"
Mr.. Lees will go down to California to
visit daughter there and later will pro-
Had . Thrilling Experience.
Rev. s. r. Mech. who was stationed at
Hstaochang. In Chihil, Is passing through
the city on his way to London. Mr.. Mech
says that he and his party, consisting Of
three missionaries and their families, had
heard nothing Of the troubles at the time
they decided to leave as the wire to TEN
tsin, $50 miles away, was cut. Tho events
that caused them to resolve on going were
: the murder OF two Roman Catholic mis-
sionaries,. few miles away, the with
drawal Of the guard Of soldiers from their
station. and the advice OF tho native
Christians that they had better get away.
They could only secure three bullock way
ons, with just sufficient accommodation for
themselves, so all their personal baggage
had to be left behind. They escaped with
few more clothes than they stood UP In
For thirteen days they 1ourneyed aver the
sscorchinR. plain. the young children suffer
ing greatly and at last reached the coast
They heard afterwards that everything
belonging to them had been looted and
their homes destroyed.
Miss Halves, OF the American Presby-
terrain mission, who arrived from China
today, had an exciting experience at
Weihsien, where she and another lady
and gentleman, all missionaries, were sta