Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-06-23

| together and create riot on the nretovt ~
| securing the inauguration Of reforms
| We're 10 be punished. while those Iovnl
subjects who learn gymnastic drill .f0r
the protection of their families and Their
country that Is to say. the members Of
| the righteous Harmony Fists Assncio
| first heard Of the so-caIled Powers ,
| openly a society for the cultivation Of
| gymnastics, secretly an anti-foreign M
| iitical movement, something like those
| Turn Nerein" or Symnastic societies
which played so important Il political rolp
| i'll Germany at the beginning of the preS-
| ent century. becoming one of the most
| important factors in the liberation of the
| Fatherland from the presence Of The
| French invader.
From that time forth the so-caIIed
| Boxers Were more or less openly en-
| couraSed by the Empress. They became
| a means of union among all the various
| secret societies, and If today these socie-
ties in all parts of the immense Chinese
| Empire are simultaneously taking ia
arms to eXpcl the foreigner it is due To
the cleverness Of the old Empress, who is
| thus AT the close Of the nineteenth century
| emulating the role played nearly 100 years
| ago by Queen Louise in Prussia. when
| she reused her countrymcn to rid Ger
many Of the thraldom of Napoleon
1 There Is every reason to believe that on
| this occasion the Dowager Empress has
| at her back, not merely her Manchu re-
| tainers, but all China, ana China, as
| stated above, contains teeming and
seethinG population of more than 100 600 :
OCo, who are almost insensiblc to pain.
have no fear of death. ana are imbued
with fierce hatred of the foreigner
To cope with this Yellow Peril naval
and especially military forces of a coIos-
sal character will be required. 1t is true
that both Canton and Picking We're occu-
pied some 10 years ago by an allied Fran
cO-EnSliSh army of some 1900 or 20 900
men. But well remember the late Sir
Harry Parks, who accompanied the COM
mandins general as chief Interpreter, ex-
planning 10 me long afterward at Toxic
that Canton as well as Picking were such
immense cities that the Anglo-French
force only occupied 4 very small quarter
thereof. and that the remainder of the
two cities was so little under their con-
troll that each morning the heads Of
those European soldiers who had straytd
beyond the Gordon of SentinelS during the
night would be hurled from neighbOrins
houses into the Anglo-Frencn lines.
Indeed the so-called seizure Of these i'm
mense capitals was so ineffective that not
that it really took place. ana have
even some Chinese friends who were liv-
ing at Picking at the time of its occupa-
ton who have pledged me by all that
they held sacred that the story must be
untrue seeing that they never set eyes
on a French or English soldier at the
time alleged.
Moreover, Chinese history ascribes the
destruction of the celebrated Summer
Palace. not to the French and English
troops, as was really the case, but To di-
vine agency, as punishment of Sacrilege
on the part of one of the members of the
imperial family.
There are only two powers that are
really in position to invade Chinese ter
ritOry at the present moment. and to
place large armies in the field; namely,
Japan ana Russia.
The latter mas probably at the present
moment about 100000 soldiers stationed 1t
Nladivostock. Port Arthur. ana along the
southeastern frontier of Siberia. Japan.
on the other hand has an army of at
Ions al q ,tf
bled at various points on the eastern
coast Of the Mikados Empire, all ready
for immediate transport across the small
stretch of sea that separates Japan from
China The Toxic government threatens
to throw an army OF several hundred
thousand men into Korea and China If
the Russians march on Picking, and in
the same way the Cars representatives,
declare that if Japan moves they will i'm
medidtely occupy the northern provinces
Of China. The other powers concerned;
namely. England, France, Germany ANA
the United States, have no military forces
adequate or near enough to deal with the
matter promptly. especially II ~ lar n
any effective steps toward the protection
of the life and the property Of their TEL
low countrymon are concerned. Yet they
are reluctant to entruSt either Of the two
powers in question with the task, or to
accept their offers of service.
For Japan is not only non-Christian
ana thoroughly Asiatic nation, imhuvl
with the hatred for the white man com
mon to all yellow races. but is also pos
srssed BY the most aggressive ambitions
only to be satisfied at the expense of the
Western powers.
The idea Of Japan IS e OBTAIN pre-
pouderaut influence III China, to secure
diffarcntill duties i'll her favor in such 4
~ AZ tn close tho Chinese market to
ali thor foreign nations. and to drill the
rhinclt. army "a ~ Ia become Il weapon
fnr tha furthcrance Of her dreams Of
grandeur.
In one word. there is no positive assur-
ANA Tn thc fact that ii Japan We're to
nLtai, control If China ut the present |
n,nn,aut shn Iyould not use that control |
,yIinst iii Western ana Christian powers
tbus intensifying the so-called yellow
peril.
Equally reluctant are the powers 10
trust Russia, who has to her record 4
tarrihIy long list Of broken treaties ana
violated engagements. 1t is but the other
AZ tbtt she obtained from Korea the
haThor III Nasampho. the finest on the
nntire coast If China. in spite Of her
mnst solemn pledges to England, as we'll
ii To Japan, not to take any such step
II Il III keeping with her conduct in COLI
nection with Batoum, in the Black SEA.
Ghe hound herself by the treaty of Berlin
tba- PItoum should be a free port and
nnfortitied. yet deliberately closed it eight
vnars later ana converted it into a naval
stronghOld on which occasion Lord Rose
berv. ~ English foreign secretary, com
nIained bitterly in a memorable dispatch
of Russia's failure to recognize the nlnu1
ing force and sancuty ot lhttr nd ~ -
mike future conventions ana treatleS ~