The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-10-09

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puny victories of 1S94-5. Already the
little real work which the allied troops
have run up against in relieving the
Legations in Picking has led to official
reports lauding the prowess of the sol
diers in contact with Chinese, who
fought ''stubbornly,'' desperately"
s'heroically," and so on.
1t all depends upon what is consid-s
1 cred fighting. There have been nor
pitched battles in open field in South
Africa fought to a finish, but the war
is in its twelfth month, and the Brit
ish long ago learned that the Beers
can fight Blocking the enemy's game,
no matter how it is done, is considered
good enough fighting for all practical
purposes by military men. Three
months ago western jingoes declared
that thousand disciplined white sol
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Tien-tsin to Picking and scatter the
pigtailed hordes like chaff. Trial was
made with the result that the jingoes
began to howl that the powers must
pour troops into China and mob the
impudent Celestials. And it looks
very much as though the allies got in
to Picking just when the Chinese We're
ready to let them in, not before.
The game of the "heathen'' was part
bluff, part buster and the rest fighting.
But everything goes in war. This mill
tary business isn't tied to petty rules.
Napoleon won by violating the art of
war The Chinese would be routed in
field contests with trained troops, and
they are clever enough to know it.
They go about the work in hand in
their own way.
Seymours column first tried the Chi
nese. 1t consisted of 1880 men with
u 16 guns The American newspaper
which parattes for a motto that what
ever it prints sis so" devoted eight sol
i'd columns of fine print to descrip-
ton of the march. Its startling head
lines are borne out by the text, and
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peruse: Thrilling Story of Admiral
Seymour's Expedition. Fought All the
Way Back. Capture of Hs-lu Arsena
Providential Event For the Allies
Almost In Despair When They Tool
the Arsenal
Ono of the first fights was when the
Boxers attacked train. They had nc
military formation, but went in on the
run and actually rushed upon thu
swords and bayonets of the allies. y
Maxim gun moved down 100 of then
and saved the train The main worl
of the Boxers was the destruction o
the road ahead of the allies, and il
s the end they succeeded. Incidental.
they fought Their arms were ole
swords, spears, fiintlocks and gingals
At Lang-fang station, where the al
lies were in good shape to receive them
the Boxers charged to within 25 yard
Of the machine guns in the face of
terrible rifle fire. One was found wit
four or five machine gun bullet
squarely through the top of his hea(
The GOODNESS and daring Of the Celes
tials astounded the allies, and it wa
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salvation of the expedition.
The column turned about at Yang
stun to return to Tien-tsin. Want G
supplies was the reason given, but tha
was due to the Chinese way of fgh
ing. They had cut the line betwee
Tien-tsin and the column, and supple
could not go forward And when til
column was on the run the Chinese pl
in some fine work which the corr
spondent says was mot the sort {
warfare any one had been led to e,
pect from the Chinese" At every vi
lage and every farm mud wall the Oh
nese disputed the march. These ne
enemies had smokeless powder an
high power rifles. They also had
FOUNDER using smokeless powder WHO
the allies couldn't locate. The gingal
using black powder and firing scrf
iron. were less formidable, and tt
allies captured some.
The march was continuous hgf
for there is village every half mi
along the Pei-Ho, and every villas
meant battle The Chinese rifles ca
ried from village to village, and
M there was no rest for the allies.
Peitsang, half way to Tien-tsin, the
lies encountered regular Chinese troo
who used field guns and kept up
steady rife fire. 1t took ian hour
hard fighting" to clear the road, al
lust below Peitsang occurred the fig
of the expedition.
E; 1t was this fight which left the ALI
lie despair. The Chinese mustered 2'Ol
with artillery and cavalry. They h
smokeless powder and fired with dea
" accuracy. After four hours strt
gle the allies went into camp on the
fensiye, Captain McCalla had rece
ed three wounds, but kept up bra
heart. 1t was decided to move out
~ o'clock in the night and escape t
Chinese. What appeared to be Chine
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