The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-28

Initiation only and much the worse for a
heavy shower} OF different lands
: BLACKMafLING
1,ha ADVICE 50 often given bv CHR asa
n #a,,e 79another not to- follow foreigners
has stbrt, brought about this result nm
bo,,,v i,tiuue in the history of mankind
ANot only are flags made the symbol rf
sa1Ieoiance TO other and unknown co,In tries
but the English language is tortured to
comneI it to announce this allegiance.
Belong Japan is the notice on an old
shed in the great Ha-ta Street. Noble and
good Sirs,'' reads another placard. please
do mn shoot us. We are good people,
silreIv never was there stranger and more
sunanticinated fulfiiment of the prophecy
that HE son of them that afflicted thee
shall come banding unto thee, than the
circumstances that within a few doors of
a Temple which served as a. Boxer head
quarters one now reads the surprising le-
send: God Christianity men," while the
remainder of the alley IS decorated with
the reiterated petition: Pray officer ex-
cuse. Here good people. The temptation
to extort money for alleged protection is
very great and it is to be confessed with
shame that among the adventures and
scoundrels which follow the army there
are those who have trailed the fair name
of tIle United States and Great Britain in
the dust In an especially iagrant case
a man termed himself "Gervais Cock 6
Company and blackmaiied large numbers
of poor Chinese. Wrestling from them sill
yer, goods and even the title deeds of their
property, as an equivalent for protection
5rhich he had not power to give, and
mich in Russian patrol territory it was
impudent to offer. This individual was
tried by court martial, and sentenced to
be shot-a sentence none too severe, but
not carried out.
ORGANIZED LOOT
To other evils inseparable from military
occupa ton must be added That of pillage,
which is forbidden in theory by some ma
tions, but practiced to some extent by
all soldiers Day after day long lines of
mules may be seen loaded with the loot Of
silk-shops, cloth-shops. sran-shops. with
anything and everything. The British pol
icy is the most scientific, in Which every
thing IS turned into a common stock and
sold for the benetitof the occupying army.
The Russian plan is that CT the Middle
Ages, slightly modified by veneer OF
Christianity, and is accompanied by the
violation of women on a scale which leads
to the suicides Of hundreds of Chinese
till the wells are choked. The savasery of
some OF the Russian troops is simply bar
barism, but there is no nation which can
throw stones at another in this dr. adfu
matter.
THE .PERPETUITIE1s PLUNDERED-
And all this has come upon Pek!ng.
and follows the terrible evils which went
before There is not only no business do
ing in Peking, but the very sources of
commercial prosperity have been cut up
by the roots In the Northern city were
four allied banks each with the character
"Heng" denotng perpetuity, and the syn
dictate owned by a Eunuch OF the Palace
was supposed to be as safe as the Bank
of England In the third week in June the
Chinese soldiers plundered each Of the
perpetuities, which have ceased to exist
as have all other caslf-shops and banks.
Tie streets are abundantly supplied with
bank-bils which blow hth and thitner
with the gusts of wind and the sWiFls
OF dust. ana are impartally rooted in
the cutters by the few surviving pigs.
WITH IMPERIAL AUTHORITY.
That the Boxer movement was essen
TALLY an Imperial one is now provs i be-
You'd DOUBT The yellow iland-blls are head
ed with the words ''Chn Ming denotinS
In accordance with Imperial order, and
their proclamatiolis embody the same
language. Thy even went to the length
of issuing new coin OF enormous size
and thickness. win the legend: 'TieE
Hssia Tai P'!ng,'-sThe Empire at Peace
a prophecy remote from the facts as We
opel.
THE PALACES.
The Manchu and Mongol Palaces, in
which these schemes We're devised and car
rieti out are now abandoned. Prince Tuan
is reported to have set fire TO his palace
before he left Picking. That of Prince
Chung Is occupied as Japan's headQuar-
tiers. The hated missionaries and the rem
nant of the flock whom they have Sue
ceeded in saving are now living in the
handsome dwellings, OF some of those who
lately tried 10 kill thcm, as the chilllrs II
o, Israel occupied the fenced cities in the
Land Of Canaan, cities witch they ncti1sr
built nor bought 'rhe capital Of a country
is that country in small, and Picking is
patrols and governed by The Powers
which issue p.oclamatiOns in Chinese for
bidding disorder. and directing those who
may have complaints TO whom To go. The
city gates are the centre Of itself. and
symbols OF the power. The uut@r brick
tower Of the tfl'ienncn caught fire from
the great cUntlasraton set BY tbs Boxers
ana made a nagniicent spectacle Will ii
ras burning for = day and Il n'ght. The
cher tower was accidentally burned late
in August.
\ GAP IN THE GREAT WALL
The japanese blew up the outer tower Of
th7 Chi'i'hut Gate. ana destroyed it, ana
fire was also set to the outer tower of
the Hata Gate the day after the foreign
troops arrived 1t is now d wreck having
afforded I. picturesque sight to tllOsz who
witnessed the bombar6ment of the south
ern approaches to the Palace on August
18th. when the three outer gates were
blown IN by American guns. Tie Tuns-
Pien and Sha- Kuo gates OF the Southern
city were each broken III by shells the
day bafore and all the nine gates of the
Northern city, well as the seven re-
naming ones OF the Southern city, arc
guarded by troops OF the eight Powers CO.
operating in Il military occupation TIE
stern portculis Of tha outer tower of
the Front Gate Qever opened except
when the Emperor passed through is de-
struyed, and for the first time there is a
straight road from the palace grounds
through all the numerous gateways TO
the Yung-TngMen in the middle of the
south face of the Southern city. not fo..