Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-10-15
Pekin. these people would no longer r
spect Chinese imperial authority.
Hurrying Out the Autographs.

HurrytnE Out the Autographs.
Hardly had the imperial army fed from
here when the native presses little way
from Pekin were kept busy with the lith-
| ographs Of which I have spoken. Runners
| dashed through the empire, carrying and
| distributing these eolOred prints. Every
| where the natives seized them eagerly, in
| order to get real news of the war.
| From these prints the ignorant natives
| read and saw pictured the long series of
| shameful defeats sustained by the allied
| troops. There was enough explanatory
| text on each print to bear out the tale Of
/ our undoing. In all China there is no such
thing as the newspaper as we understand
that institution: Special dispatches" and
! special cables" are as unknown to these
! yellow people as news Of Wall street would
be to jewellers in the moon. The only news
| paper In the empire is the Pekin Gazette.
has been more than 1000 years In exist
ence; for the last five centuries it has been
published as daily. But this closely ed
tied sheet has always been issued from the
palace and has contained nothing but that
which the government was willing the peo-
pie should believe. During the late trou-
| BILE the Gazette has been Indefinitely sus-
pended and the people have had no definite
| knowledge of what has been happening
| That is to say, not until these Autograph
| ic sheets began to circulate through the
| empire.
! Nor can anything more funny be imag-
| ined. There are some scores of different
| style of posters that have been printed and
| issued. In their range they take up every
| imaginable incident. from the bombar dmunt
Of the Taku forts to the battle of Yang
| tsun.
| I'VE didn't capture the forts at Taku
| Instead. the navies of the powers were de-
| stroyed by the torpedoes manipulated from
| the forts. The scenes of casualties as
shown on these Autographs, are frightful
beyond conception. Boats of landing par
| ties are flying sky-high in an awful chaos
anfS of fhn hoo
are fast resolving into the original dust
At Tien Tsin the allied troops. despite their
fearful punishment at Taku. are shown
suffering even worse fates How the arm
les of the world could have suffered two
such appalling disasters and still be able
to fight on the way to Pekin is not ex-
admit that we did fight at Yang sun. and
here again fearful tale of slaughter is re-
corded.
Russians Defeated at the Amur.
Nor does the lying Of the native chron-
iclers stop at this point By a sudden
flight Of the imagination. the yellow writer
transports us to the banks of the Amur
Here. as the world has been told through
the cables to the civilized press of the
world, the Russians administered a salu-
tory whipping to the Chinese, drove them
back and held Amur. But the Chinese lith-
ographs tell an entirely different story
The Russians were whipped driven back
Boxer hands were sadly punished. $3.50
False as all these stories of brush and
pen are there Is much in these Chinese
autographs that may well engage the at
tention Of the diplomats of the world. The
yellow uprising was of course, If you be-
lieve the Chinese, the work of the Boxers
But in these Autographs it Is made plain
that Gen. Ma and Gen. Tung Fuh Hsiang
and the imperial troops under them took
prominent part In all the fights against the
allies. In the pictures of the fights the
banners of these two Chinese commanders
frequently appear. The generals themselves
are pictured as leading the Chinese hosts on
to victory.
In one of the cartoons the murder of the
Japanese chancellor Is sanctioned by the
imperial commanders. This incident will be
valuable as a oasis of claim by Japan.
In another Autograph a Japanese soldier
Is shown in doubled-up position, tied to a
bamboo pole and being carried before his
military judges. 1t Is in this fashion that
pigs are carried to market In China and
the suggestion of such treatment for for
eigner is sure to be hailed with Joy by pa
triotic' Cinnamon.
Governments Completely shown.
Generals Ma and Tung Fnh Hsiang IAgure
in SO many of these bloody scenes that the
Chinese government will not be able to
deny their completely In the actual flght-
ing. In one cartoon these two generals
are displayed az smiling their approval ot
the treatment Of several foreign officers
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