Cochise review., 1900-10-13
THE CHINESE SIDE.
German Officer Testifes to Bravery
 of Mongolian Troops.
How Christian Humanity Compares with the Raw Ferocity of the BOxers--The Foreign
 CTS in China.

The Europeans are beginning to find out that after all the Celestial is not such bad soldier, says Chicago ex- change. Lieut.. Won Krohn, lying wounded in the German hospital at Yokohama, whither he was brought from Taku. is very positive on that point. He thinks, according to local paper which has interviewed him, that they are splendid material, and if they had good officers would probably be in vincible." Elsewhere he says that every body in general has very greatly underestimated the quality of the Chi nese troops. It would be utter folly to think that with an army of forty, fifty or even a hundred thousand the allied forces could reach Peking. but force of at least 150.00O and especially d large force of artillery and cavalry and a carefully planned campaign will be necessary to attain that eud.',
 Incidentally Leut. Von Krohn lets us see how beautifully our Christian humanity and civilization compares with the raw ferocity of the Boxers:
 AS far as the capture of plisyns is concerned" he says. this is an imPos sibility, as the Chinese are not civilized enough for that kind of warfare. Cn- der the circumstances of the present warfare in China the allies have been and probably will be in the future com pelled to kill the wounded with the bay onet. IT. the beginning they even sent wounded to the hospital at fentsin. but they soon found out that as long as man was able to raise d hand he would try and stab the foreigners; and as, moreover, they found the prisoners very refractory and had all they could do to attend to them mselves, they were compelled to kill all wounded with bay onets and, generally speaking, accept no prisoners, but to kill everybody that stood up against them"
 Even the anger of the throne, feeble and at the same time bombastic as it often is in China, becomes almost sub lime in view of the unparalleled affront of Taku The rescript, which is in the ''''iS VI NAlS l''i pl. pl IouISS, IGllS with good deal of ability and clear. ness how many benefits the Chinese government conferred on the foreign CTS, how it permitted them to trade with the Chinese. how it permitted them to send their missionaries among the people though lhe latter did not want them. But lately the foreigners had usurped territory and plundered the people of China by force. and in so doing they had insu.ted the empire. As a result their churches had been destroyed and their missionaries mur- dered. The government had done its pest to protect foreigners and had is sued instructions for the protection of the legations in Peking and the rescue or the missionaries, Despite this action the foreigners, needless of the benevo- lent intentions Of the government, had demanded with display of force the withdrawal of the Chinese troops from the Taku forts, At this point the writ CT or the rescript seems to lose con- trol of himself, or herself We "sol- emnly and with tears declare. :" he cries, that we will carry on this war to the bitter end rather than suffer this ig- nomy and five. Oh! hear ye. our loyal and patriotic subjects and people! Come in hundreds of thousands from Chihli and Shantung and assemble in the imperial capital, for it is our inten- ton to fight with the enemy for our 20 provinces and their 400, ,OO0 900 in habitants"
 In Pharaoh or a Babylonian mon arch this outburst would be considered fine, and the Chinese empire is contem- porary of the empire of the Pharaohs and the empire of the Babylonians and should consequently have the same privileges. In a hundred years the blood-guiltiness, the treachery. the want of faith, the craft, the mendacity and the cruelty will have been forgot ten and people will look back on the last struggle of the oldest empire that the world ever say with sympathy, ad- miration and pity.