New-York tribune., 1900-07-09
LOCAL CHINESE FAVOR WAR.
ANXIOUS FOR REFORMS AT HOME
AND PLANNING TO ACT-DR.
WANG breaches.

The Chinese merchants OF this city are said N
be considering the advisabiity OF calling noeetino
OF the prominent Chinese to outline their feelings
toward the uprising Of Boxers in China and the
consequent endangertng of American lives and
property. Tom Lee. self-styIed Mayor OF China
town. who makes his headquarters at No Is Mott
St, over the King Hong Lou restaurant has the
matter IN charge Lee is a great power in the
chinese quarter and probably does more business
Tor his countrymen than the authorized representa-
tive Of the Empire He said yesterday to Tribune
reporter:
II the trouble in China grows and many moro
neriGaas tbf are 4 Killed some Of my people believe
We nave had some trouble with roughs from the
were started by drunken men who hated Chinese
" course. the greater number OF Americans know
but can harmed great deal by the e0tf ofhers qs
t gov IL, II we caIl a meeting and pass resolutions
You Americans are always passing resolutions
another part of China and how they hate us almost
as oadly as they do foreigners. Then most OF US
ized. and we could put that in We will wait a few
Gays' Gays an aTd II II the troTble grows something of this
for China, and we will be glad to see it if it does
not bother
Chinatown was anything but quiet yesterday.
Mott and Pell sts. almost impossible. Chinese
who work in other parts OF this city hocked to the
quarter to hear the latest A Chinese mission
preacher who held forth at the junction OF Mott
and Pel sts. spent some time explaining the weeks
developments in China.
At the Gospel Tabernacle No. 6s2 Eighth-ave. DR.
Wang. a convert OF the Christian and Missionary
Alliance, who has Just arrived from Tfen-Tsin
China. preached in the afternoon and evening He
spoke English duently. and before beginning his
sermon outlined his idea of the situation in China
He said In part:
When I left T1en-Tsln on May It we expected
soon. The fate Of missionaries in the danger dis
trict is still unknown. but 1 do not believe they
can escape, at least not many OF them. The thou
sands of native Christians in Northern China have
even fewer chances. The rioters hate them worse
be forced to e, give up their new religion and may
most of them viii die for the faith. like the the
martyrs Of old. I would not have left China had
back back Is VIII" our people ana am eager to get
China will doubtless learn a valuable lesson from
can do with them: It will not make them any
no amount of will make them change their
minds
No news was received in this city yesterday by
the different foreign mission boards from their
representatives in China. The Methodist and Pres
byterian societies kept Sunday and their offices
were closed Assistant Secretary Booth the Inter
national Young Mems Christian Association was
expecting news by cable, but nothing was received
during the day.
The Rev. F. Bell, of the Christian and Missionary
Alliance cabled the station Of the alliance at
about the missionaries in the Peking district He
has received news which leads him 70 believe that
Picking besides the five regularly stationed there
The regular Peking force includes Miss D. VI. Doan.
Miss Anna Gowans, of Scotland; Miss H Rufher ffit
ford and the Rev. NJ C. York The alliance has
thirty-two European missionaries most of whom
from Sweden. They have seventeen children
with them All Of these stations in the greatest
danger if, indeed. they have not already been
destroyed