Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-17
bOXER NEWS
EQUIPMENT OF CHINESE.
It's Perfection Is a Revelation to AL
Europe.

New York, July ia dispatch to the
Tribune from London says: ~
war with the forces Of barbarism. one
of the turning points of history has been
a aranona a pehin ;ep Will u Pc pee e antumn a Ana the he
blood-stained dictator and empress, IN
sympathy with the anti-foreign movement.
will be overthrown. but the only vengeance
which civilization can carry into execution
is the humane policy of governing China
IN an enlightened way through the partition
of the empire. The boxers will gradually
be dispersed and the assassins driven into
the Interior, but Japan, Russia and the
responsibility for conducting the admins
tration of China.
The last engagement at Tien Tsin Is 2
now lies ahead of the powers. The Chi
nese are fighting with determination and
skill which they never once displayed dur-
ing the war with Japan.
Workmanship Of the chinese are spoken Of
by the Mails correspondent as positive
revelations.
It is rumored in diplomatic circles that
the German emperor has advised the ap-
! pointment of the French General Dods as
commander-in-chief of the allied forces,
but that the Paris government has not as
scented to the proposition. Unity OF direc-
ton in the campaign Is a source OF weak
ness when there are SO many contingents.
The only source of consolation, respecting
1as p Of all n fhs detaile % e aeeo %1afr when MGIhh have
been or may be published. The true story
of the closing scenes at the legations will
never be told, for no foreigner is left to
relate it, and all the Chinese versions will
be regarded with suspicious.
The enterprise of half-penny journalism
has its limitations. 1t cannot bring the
murdered foreigners back to life to startle
the world with a record of their suffering.
excited surmises of the Chinese officials,
who We're not witnesses of the tragic
scenes.
Two facts which beyond doubt are that
the legations made a most gallant fight
and that the foreigners were massacred.
The value Of the assistance rendered by
Prince Ching and General Weng ShaO is
open to question, since the Chinese au-
thorities may have invented or e;xagger-
ated these details in order to eNculpate or
The atrocities with which the storming
and destruction Of the last embassy inclos-
ure were accompanied may be left to the
imagination, if any one who remembers
the story Cawnpore has the heart to pic
The South African war, with it's daily
lists of casualties and deaths from fever,
may have created some ~insenbility to the
pathos of humane suffering, but the cool
ness and lack of excitement with which
the most monstrous crime of the century
was discussed were most remarkable. One
explanation of this strange calm was the
fact that all rejecting men had abandoned
hope many days before the catastrophe was
revealed by the Chinese officials and that
the public was prepared for the worst.
The press, with one or two exceptions, is
avoiding historical writing about Nemesis
anu vengeance ana IS ulSpiaylng coolness
and common sense. Thoughtful men per-
ceive the gravity of the situation when the
murderous Camarilla has usurped power,
sent a horde of soldiers and fanatics to
drive the allies from Tien Tsin. and ordered
50.O0 black flags to march toward the
!. Yang-Tse.
;, The British roll call at Pekin includes the
names Of about 70 women and many chill.
dren. There were many missionaries with
their families in the doomed Enclosure
Friends of the British minister remember
sadly his satisfaction when he received his
appointment and his telling to them tina
he was at last in great luck in receiving
his promotion. Lady Hart is completely
Frustrated at her London home by the
tragic death of her husband, for which his
own dispatch prepared her.
The only journalist at Pekin was DR.
Morrison, whose dispatches published il
the Times have been marvels of enterprise
> and Oriental cunning. He was an Aus.
; tralian who had travelled far and wide II
+ China and perfectly understood the native
!. character.