The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-24
INFORM CRUELTY OF CHINESE.
FriGhtfuI Tortures Legally Inflicted
on Native Criminals


Writing about three weeks ago in the
Paris Journal Edouard Santeui predict
ed the awful fate of the Europeans at
Pekin, and supported his prediction by
the natural cruelty of the Chinese He
wrote:
China so proud Of her civilization and
her arts, which honors family virtues and
gives the prec dence to letters and sci nee
possesses by strange contrast record
Of the most ferocicus cruelty in the &C
complishment of vengeance. 1t is there
fore not without fear that one even
thinks of the reprisals which China would
be able to indi-t at this very moment on
the foreigners established in her terri
tory. Above everything e'se, the Chinese
have the passion for isolation, and it is
carried even to flnaticism.
The great wall which we look on as an
an historical expression exists still in the
eyes If Il e Ce'est ais They have never
seen it passed over without having a rage
at heart They have defended it often
with their own bodies and if they ever
hoped for the moment when they would
be sufficiently well armed to throw all
The foreigners in the sea. one can be sure
that this operation, which has been pre-
dieted with authority by Admiral Cour-
bet. will be carried out by the Chimes
with all the refinements of cruelty in
spired by a blind sentiment of revenge.
This explains. as it already appeared
in the terrible hours of the TAPPING rebel
lion, the incendary fires. the massacres
and murders with which have been begun
he resurrection of the Boxers, whe her
authorized by tho regular army and the
imperial government or not and which is
nothing else than a defiance of the yellow
can no longer tolerate China for the Chi
nese! Thai cry has often been, heard in
this century, and always it was accom-
panied by the most frlghtful horrors.
When the Chinaman. let him be mandarin
or merdicant, litterattur or workingmaa,
passes out of his idustrious or passive
T. anquili into &C ion, he has no longer
any control of himself-he sees red.
How many traits of his barbarous fury
have been shown in the lasi twenty years,
in the French conquests in Southern Chi
ma Woe to our civilian countrymen who
fel into the hands of the Yellow or Black
Favillons! Woe to the prisoners or to the
wounded they could surprise! often has
been related that terrifying forenoon, at
the Parer Bridge in Tonquin, when Com
mandant Riviere met death, and fortunes
were inf cted on officers and soldiers who
could not escape in time.
Read over again, if you have sufficient
courage for it. the martyrology of the
Christian missions, Protestant as well as
Catholic. There is at Paris, in the build
ing of the foreign missions, hall where
are assembled the bloody proofs--cothing
pierced by knife blades whole sets of
teeth torn out, instruments of torture
which would have made the inquisition
Itself SILVER.
How could the Chinese deprive them
selves of their pleasure in crueties when
they enjoy inflicting it on their own couu-
trymen? Their judges have sanctioned the
ght to submit accused persons 70 such
fortunes as whipping. pulling cut nails.
crushing arkles or fingers and hanging b.
the arms. among the one hundred and
twenty-seyen forms of cruel treatment
which they have invented and VIII oh they
apply with horrifying delight, according
to mere caprice.
Three forms of notwithstanding
strangling and sarroting-do not suffice TO
satisfy them; there is also the SLOW
death" This execution lasts for several
days. beginning with the faying of the
skin of the forehead. which the execution
er ljwers upon the eyes of the criminal in
order TO avoid his looks. The imcassibi-
ity of the barbarians when abandoning
themselves to these abominable moods is
sensibllity. In cases OF war or Of foreign
invasions the mandarlns have the right
to infict these tortures whenever and in
the measure they choose. But The Juror
of the crowds proceeds often in advance
of the mandarins order. The extreme
pleasure which the yellow race feels in the
preparation of these crimes against hui
mainly IS shown in the capital itself on
Dec. II in ever year. II is the day which
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take place not In the barbarian Quarte~ OF
Pekin but in the best quarter Of the Chi
nee capital A shed is tn 1t on the squa q
Of the vegetable market. and the con-
demntd persons are brought in there dur
ing the preparations for their punishment
Around the square all shops are c'osed
but the roofs are covered with persons
anxious to enjoy the horrible spectacle of
the different executions.