Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-08-04
NATIVE CHRISTIANS
ARE SKINNED ALIVE;
TWO NUNS BURNED
Horrible Atrocities Commit
ted by the Boxers In and
Around Picking.
PRINCE Ii IS DENOUNCED

1t Is Believed He Intends Saving the
Chinese Capital by Embroiling the
Powers-He Is Regarded as the Most
Corrupt Anti Foreign Official In
Missionaries Massacred.
CHE Foo, July 30, via SHANGHAI,
Aug. 3.-Public opinion and the foreign
press at treaty ports are alarmed at the
possibility that the Chinese would pre-
vail upon the powers to consent to the
establishment of peace without infict-
ing punishment BETTING the Chinese
governments crime. Officials, persons
engaged in commercial pursuits and
missionaries of all nationalities are re-
markedly united. They believe Peking
should be destroyed as an object lesson
and thav if the dynasty is continued it
should be forced to establish the capital
at some accessible city, the Americans
suggesting Marking. This is consid-
cred important, as the Chinese always
believed that China defeated the pow
ers in 1860 because the capital remained
intact. 1t is also thought that the guar
antees to prevent excessive armament
should be demanded and that China
should be compelled, publicly and def
nitely, to renounce the fiction that the
foreign ministers are representatives of
tributary powers. There is strong de-
mand for unusual punishment, like the
Il OfN III ko1N he
The American and English mission
aries advocate program similar to the
foregoing.
All foreigners believe that the Chi
nese government engineered the out
breaks and is trying to call off its troops
after the downfall of Tien Tsin and the
receipt of reports that the powers are
sending armies to China. A German
legation telegram saying that the bonn
bardment of the legations ceased July
II supports this theory. The foreigners
think that the ministers who suffered
should, if rescued, conduct the settle
ment with the government for the effect
it would have on the populace.
An intensely bitter feeling prevails
against Ii Hung Chang. The papers
denounced the honor paid him at Hong
Kong and Shanghai and call him the
most corrupt anti-foreign official in
China and express the belief that he
proposes to save China from the penalty
of her acts by embroiling the powers.
The destruction of foreign property
continues. United States Consul Fow-
Ter estimates that the losses of the Amer
lean missions amount to 81, $780, 900. The
trade losses through the suspension Of
trade are enormous.
Chinese bring many stories of horri-
BILE outrages upon native Christians,
who have been murdered, tortured, or
compelled to renounce their religion.
Several have been skinned alive.
Two French nuns at New Chwang
were deliberately burned alive. DR..
Ting, a graduate of an American coll
lege, refused to renounce Christianity,
afterward receiving 1000 lashes.
A cable is being laid between Che Foo
and Taku. The land line between Che
Foo and Shanghai is managed and ope-
rated by Cinnamon and is inefficient
The line is overcrowded with work and
business is in hopeless confusion. Mes
sages over the line are public property
There should be o cable between Che
Foo and Shanghai managed by foreign
ers so as to give satisfactory service.