Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-12-13
EUROPEAN SOLDIERS UNsPEAK-
ABLY CRUEL TO CHINESE.
AMERICANS DARING DEEDS
George A burst of Baltimore IN
Charge of Postal Station in China,
Writes of His Experiences ana
Some Thoroughly Horrible Recitais
They Are Too.

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in the mailing division of the Balti-
more postof1ce and now in Charge OF
the sub-station at Tong-ku, China,
writes an interesting letter describing
his experiences in the far east
Mr.. burst is son of Mr.. James G.
burst, 80 Ostend street Baltimore, and
was appointed to the Chinese station
in August. He served as seaman on
the auxiliary cruiser Dixie during the
war with Spain. He was selected for
foreign postal service on account OF
his efficiency. Mr.. bursts letter is as
follows:
Il arrived at Nagasaki, Japan, on
August after very pleasant voyage.
Nagasaki is very pretty town, OF
about $4,000 inhabitants, situated at
the base Of the mountains five miles
inside of bay. 1t is am excellent
town for fertilization, and the Japan
ese have used their best ability to
prepare such defenses, as they think
it only a matter of time when they
will have war with Russia. They will
not allow visitors to carry camera.
Shortly after we arrived Sunday
morning) we went ashore in sampan
(boat), got a rickshau and went
through the town. A rickshau is a
small carriage pulled by Jap, who
will keep on a dog trot all day, with
out even eating, for the munificent
sum of Is cents Mexican (that is the
only money used over here) an hour
or 81 Mexican $50 cents our money!
day.
1.-THE Japanese men do all the work
about the house, as well as earn the
living for the family; all the women
do is to mind the babies and cook the
food The women there are bought
and sold like slaves and are respected
about as much. AS general rule
they are pretty, but very lazy. While
there | met and called on Mr., Har-
ris, the United States consul, and
found him very clever gentleman. He
has been consul there for long time
81 visited the monument erected to
| General Grant by the Japanese gov
! eminent at the temple where the gen.
raj and his wife each planted a tree
| during their trip around the world. We
| left Nagasaki on August IL on the
United States transport Indiana, and
after pleasant voyage of three days
through the Korean strait, Yellow sea
and Gulf of Pechili we dropped anchor
by the largest fleet of vessels | ever
cow Thara xuora go oil fold opd ax,or.,
nation of any size was represented,
even the Chinese. Where the fleet was
| lying seemed to be out in the open
sea, but that was because the land is
so low and the water so shallow that
the vessels have to anchor Is miles
from shore. Next morning we were
| transferred from the Indiana to the
Foo Chow, and after voyage of two
and one-half hours up the bay and a
| serpentine river we were landed at
Tongku (Which means syrup.
China, the land OF flowers and
| fieas; poor China! well may you
weep to have to stand idly by and see
your towns devastated by the sword,
your women assaulted and then bay
| oneted, your houses looted and your
| children tossed from bayonet to bayo-
net like so much hay by the cruel
French, Germans and Russians, who
know no mercy, but are the first to
ask it.
Thank God the Americans are
herel They are the protectors of the
weak, and if it was not for our glori-
GUS soldier boys and the English this
river would be literally damned up
with the dead bodies of innocent wo-
men and children.
THE trench, Germans and Russians
simply attack towns for the loot they
can get; they do not care whether
there are any Boxers or not, and they
show mercy to none.
But to continue. | left Tongku on
a train that cannot even be com.
pared to a second-class American cat
tie train and was whirled on toward
Tientsin at the rapid rate of IL miles
an hour. Just think of it, It took
two and one-half hours to go the %
miles that lie between Tongku and
Tientsin.
And such sights that met my eyes
on the way! sDesolation everywhere,
Towns of from 5000 to $4,000 inhabi-
tants few months ago are now out
OF existence, while the river is al
most choked with dead bodies. You
must know that every Chinese house
has dog, and when the people were
driven out they of course left the
dogs behind. The dogs are running at
large, living on dead bodies. and are
almost wild. Indeed, fear in a short
while they viii make very dangerous
customers, as they bark and snap al
every living thing they see.
After this tortuous ride | reached
Tientsin, where the hardest fighting
took place. Everywhere as far as the
eye could reach was a solid mass of
ruins. AS for the inhabitants and
general plans of the city | cannot saw
anything, as | was only there a few
days when was put in charge of the
suo-station at Tongku of the United
States Military Postal Station No. j
The only places l visited in Tien.
tsin we're Gordon Hall, named in