Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-07-02
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provinces.
Edict of the Empress.
FThe foreign powers cast upon us
looks of tiger-like voracity, hustling
each other in their endeavors to be
the first to seize upon our innermost
territories she declared. "They fail
to understand that there are certain
things which this empire can never
consent to do, and that if hard pressed
we have no alternative but to rely
upon the justice of our cause"
Four weeks later another edict was
dispatched to the same officials by the
doWager empress, who, according to
widespread belief in the orient, has
English or American blood in her
veins. her mother having been a
Eurasian, or child of white father,
and Manchu mother In this second
edict the viceroys were warned to ex-
ercise prudent discrimination toward
the disturbers of public peace The
reckless fellows who band together
and create riot on the pretext OF Sc
curing the Inauguration of reforms,
were to be punished, while those
loyal subjects who learn gymnastlc
drill for the protection of their faml-
lies and their country that is to say,
the members of the Righteous Har-
mony Fists Association were to be
favored This was the first heard OF
the so-called Boxers" openly So
ciety for the cultivation of gymnastics,
secretly an anti-foreign political
movement, something like those Turn
Verein or gymnastic societies which
played so important political role in
Germany at the beginning of the
present century, becoming one of the
most important factors in the liberia
ton of the fatherland from the pres
ence of the French invader. From that
time forth the so-called Boxers" were
more or less openly encouraged by the
empress. They became means o.
union among all the various secret So
cieties in all parts of the immense
Chinese empire are simultaneously LAX
| ing to arms to excel the foreigners, it
| is due to the cleverness of the old EN-
press, who is thus at the close of the
nineteenth century emulating the role
played nearly 100 years ago by Queen
Louise in Prussia, when she reused her
countrymen to rid Germany of the
| thraldom of Napoleon.
Immense Armies Needed.
/ There is every reason to believe thai
on this occasion the dowager empress
has at her back, not merely her Manchu
retainers, but all China, and China, as
stated above, contains a teeming and
seething population of more than 400,-
900, 900, who are almost insensible t.
pain, and are imbued with fierce hatred
of foreigners, and have no fear 81
death To cope with the yellow peril,
naval, and especially military forces, of
/ a colossal character will be required.
It is true that both Canton and Pekin
were occupied some forty years ago, by
an allied Franco-EngliSh army of 3D.
900 or 10000 men. But I will remem-
| Der the late Sir Harry Parks, who ac-
companied the commanding general as
chief interpreter, explaining to me long
afterward at Toxic, that Canton and
Pekin were such immense cities thai
the Anglo-French forces only occupied
very small quarter thereof, and that
the remainder of the two cities were co
little under their control that each
morning the heads of those European
soldiers who had, strsR-ed beyond the
Gordon of sentinels during the night
would be hurled from neighbOring
houses into the Anglo-French lines.
Indeed, the so-called seizure of these
immense capitals was SO ineffective
that not one in a thousand Cinnamon
will admit that it really took place,
and 7 have even some Chinese friends
who were living at Pel6in at the time of
it's occupation, who have pledged lie
by all that they held sacred that the
story must be untrue, seeing that they
never set eyes on French or English
soldier at the time alleged. Moreover,
Chinese history ascribes the destruction
of the celebrated summer palace, not to
the French and English troops, as was
really the case, but to Divine agencies,
as punishment of sacrilege on the part
of one of the members of the imperial
family.
Japanese or Russian Invasion.
There are only two powers that are
really in a position to invade Chinese
territory at the present moment, and to
place large armies in the field, namely.
Japan and Russia. The latter has
probably at the present moment about
100000 soldiers stationed at Vladivo-
stock, Port Arthur, and along tie
southeastern frontier Of Siberia, Japan
on the other hand, has an army of at
least twice that number of men as
sembled at various points on the east
ern coast of the mikados empire, ready
for immediate transport across the
small stretch Of sea that separates
, Japan from China. The Toxic govern
ment threatens to throw an army of
several hundred thousand men into Ko-
rea and China, if the Russians march
ON Pekin, and in the same way the