The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-07-16
CIRCULARS Blythe BOXERS
STRANGE PROCLAMATIONS II
CITIES OF CHINA.
Blood Curdling Stories of the Atrocities
of Missionaries Circulated to Work
Up Feeling Against Them.

The following is literal translation
of a Boxer proclamation recently posted
in Tein-Tsn:
"All the Christian churches, notIceI
I'VE set one weeks time. All the
churches must be converted into Inn
mortal halls, or the members must
leave them. If you disobey, we will pull
down the buildings with our magic arts
or burn them down with fire. Then re-
pentance will be beyond your reach.
."CSigneD: The / Ho Boxers of the
Empire Tor universe)."
The Boxers are Taoists; hence the al
fusion to the halls of immortals. In one
district some distance south of Tien-
Tsin, Wang Chia-Kow, the Viceroy s
proclamation against the Boxers was
only posted one day when it was torn
down and six anti-fOreign placards
posted in it's place. Stories of foreign
ers poisoning wells were being freely
circulated in that district, says the T..
and T. Times, and caused much excite
ment.
Here is another proclamation by the
Boxers:
Thus saith Ii, the God of wealth and
Happiness!
80 account of the protestant and
Catholic religions, the Buddhist gods
are oppressed, and out sages thrust in
to the background. The law of Buddha
is no longer respected, and the five rela-
tiOnships are disregarded. The anger or
heaven and earth have been aroused,
and the timely rain has consequently
been withheld from us. But heaven is
now sending down eight millions of
spiritual soldiers to eXtirpate these for
eign religions, and when this has been
done there will be a timely rain. In a
short time there will be an encounter
of weapons, and the soldiers and peo-
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to hasten and rejoin the Buddhist faith
as soon as possible. The vi Ho Tuan
(Boxers) can protect the government
and give peace and protection to the
people, and the parents of families hav-
ing seen this notice must make it known
to others, and thus avoid calamity to
their families. Those who fail to pup
lish it will suffer. If the foreign relig-
ions are not destroyed there will be no
rain"
The popular antagonism to the mis-
sionaries which arises very largely be-
cause the latter strenuously decline to
countenance the ancestral cult, which is
the most veneTated, as it is one of the
most antiquated, of the customs of
China, is extensively fostered by the
| "litterati" class, who represent the ul-
ira conservative element in Chinese So
ciety. 1t has been the constant aim of
the 'litterati' to "inoculate the people
with a superstitious belief that the mis-
sionaries commit the most abominable
atrocities, Missionaries are represented
as gouging out the eyes of children or
cOrpses, for the supposed purpose of
utilizing them for medicinal purposes;
or they are depicted in the act of vivi-
secting Chinese victims in order to OBJ
tain certain parts of the body, which
are stated to be common elements of
the European pharmacopoeia. In other
pictures insinuations are made of the
grossest immortality. To this
day the Chinese believe that childrens
eyeballs are extracted for the purpose
of sensitising Photographic plates"