The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-22
BRITISH BOXERS.
The Chinese Societies Are vo4
Queer If These Like 1t Are Re-
bered.
From the London Express

From the London EXPRESS
British Boxers!" exclaims the ,..,.
incredulously. Nonsense
But 1t was not nonsense. Far fro,, =.
England has had Boxers galore: onl,,
have not called them Boxers. Int .,1
dites.' "Rebeccaites," "Chartists, --4u'
plain rioters" u Just
London had taste of what this ,.,..
variety of the genus could aoocm1,; 'a''ef
February, 1886, when the mob raea5 =, ~
two hours through the principal Wsst ~. tor
streets, smashing windows, breaksin, i .".u
and ransacking jewelers. shops. attaeh ~"
and robbing private carriages ana rVs
treating any well-dressed individpole 10.
CHANGED to meet. Later on, again. ON Ny
3D. 1887, Trafalgar Square was held acct.
them with difficulty by several tboI,aa|,
police, mounted and on foot. and H.
serve the First Life Guards. IT,
There are plenty of people now I,,,,.-
VINO can remember all too wildly HOW ~
'Luddites" terrorized Derbyshire Tan
cashire, Yorkshire, Nottinghamshira an.
other countries. For the space OF ,1rs
Whoie years, in the affected areas ne
man life was safe from the vengeance ~
king Judd" and his henchnnen ana ~ =.
executed in one gigantic batch thar tSa
horrors came to an end. Thirty years late.
occurred the curious ''Rebecca" ro,s
mostly in Wales, the special object of N.
rioters being the destruction of all turr
pixies throughout the principality,
The "Chartists" are typical Bowers
Their Intentions at the outset were goo5
and their demands by no means unrsssor
able. Yet whenever they managed N 90.
the upper hand fr;ghtful scenes We're in
variably enacted. Al Bristol thew hrora
open the prisons, set fire to the Mansion
House, the Bishops palace, and more thar
a hundred private dwellings, and murdar.
ed and phlaged to their hearts conten,
Similar scenes were repeated elsewhere
AT Birmingham. in one short SUNNI,
night Gully Is. 1880, well-nigh incalcuIshIs
damage was done.
Belfast has had its own special Rovs,,
and anti-Boxers almost from time i'm.
memorial. They are known locally as Or.
angemen and Catholics, and ALWAYS AT
the slightest provocation, often at mona
at all, they fly at one anothers throats
burn one another's houses, and acc gen.
orally after the most approved Boxer
fashion the world over. Their last greg,
outbreak was in 1886. when eleven of the
combatants lost their lives and over IN
were wounded
Prior to that, however. several Other
similar scenes were enacted, and alwav,
with like results. In 1864, when the fun"
was started by the unwilling in Dublin
of the O'Connell monument nine people
were killed outright and one hundred and
fifty were injured; and in 1872 property 10
the value of 100000 was wantonly de-
stroyed. 1t is doubtful whether the Chi
nese Boxers have done very much worsA
than this at Tien Tsin.
The self-styled Skeleton Army" was
an organization whose pei aversion was
the Salvation Army. In 1894 these rei.
gious Cor perhaps 1t would be more cor.
rect to say anti-religious) Boxers created
great disturbances at Gravesend, Worth
ing, Brighton and elsewhere, and later
on Eastbourne was the scene Of even
more violent rioting in which many Sal
vationists were badly hurt. Al Tredegar
in Monmouthshire, however, the men Of
blood and fire turned the tables on their
assailants who were mostly Irish labor
ers. For three whole days and nights
the Boxers (Skeletons) held their own, but
eventually the pertinacity of the other
side overcame their resistance, the quar-
ter of the town in which the aggressors
lived was sacked and they themselves
were driven ANONYMOUSLY forth into the
open country. a few days later six hun
bred of them had 20 be transported back
20 Ireland at the expense of the govern
ment.