The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-19
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chus felt their way very cautiously. Taey
advanced along toward the interior slow
ly and delbera tely, capturing and pacifY-
ing district after district and carefully
refraining from any rapid movement in
country densely populated by hostiee.
In 1927 a new King ascended the throne
of China. Hundreds Of thousands of his
subjects congregated in the Yangtse Val
ley for celebration in connection with
his accession. The invaders chose their
time and swooped down on them, cutting
the dykes of the Yangtse river and spread
ing death and desolation everywhere.
Awed by the calamity and the menace II
a strange and powerful people in their
midst, great numbers of Chinese came
over to the enemy and openly vowed al
legiance to their conquerors The new
Emperor was a weakliug, with none of
the instincts of a soldier. and believing
that the time was ripe for a MASTER
stroke, the invaders began to push on
to Pekin
In the year 1913 they reached the walls
of the forbidden city, with every foot of
the country that lay between them and
their own native land not only under sub
lection but enjoying a fairly good govern
ment. There never was any more DELHI
crate of better planned conquest in the
history of the world. Before the Man
chus advanced from a captured district
it had been practically made a part of
their own nation. If they could not ac-
complsh this change in one year they
waited five.
In front of Pel1in the invaders halted for
two months. One night traitors opened
the gates of the city and for twenty-four
hours the thoroughfares ran blood The
palaces and all vestige of Chinese author
ity were swept away. and before the year
was over Chinas first Manchu ruler as
cended The throne.
The dynasty has remained there from
that day to this. Instead, however, of
stamping it's impress on the country or
bringing with it any changes in the life
or methods Of the Chinese its Manchuriau
customs have almost completely died out
and the Chinese literature, religion and
habits have thoroughly transformed the
conuuerors And. more than that. the
Chinese have actually overrun Manchuria
and so stamped it with the Chinese hall
mark that the Manchu nation. as a ma
ton, has been practically wiped off the
map
Though China has obtained this mild
hammered revenge on the invaders, the
very great mass Of the people have never
been reconcled to the ConQuering dynasty,
and the whole outhern and southeastern
part of the empire, with its teeming mill
ions of people, may be lkened to a smold-
ering volcano ready at any moment TO
break out into rebellion and place chi
nese family on the throne. In the whole
25O years since the Ming dynasty began to
rule this determination has been kept
steadily alive.
The great Tai Ping rebellion, in spite OF
ell the terrible charges that were laid al
the door of the rebels end generally be-
lieved, was treated by the European gov
ernments in a manner that they are no"
beginning to realize was entirely wrong
England and France failing to see in II
The uprising of great national spirit
which could never be kept down perma-
nentlv, sided with the Ming dynasty, and
il was this assistance that saved the
throne and smothered the rebellion. What
has Europe won from II? Only The bit
ter hatred and scorn of the race that il
saved and kept in power. For thirty-hVe
years the Mings have dealt back dagger
thrusts and insults for every kindness
showered upon them.
II is the general sentiment among white
people who have lived among the Chinese
and who claim to understand some lltte
about their motives and their ambitions.
that China will never be in settled con-
dition until this Ming dynasty has been
extermiuated or banished once and for all
and the old Chinese line of emperors seat
ed on the throne. The great province Of
SEE Cnudn Is tne ntdN alA llOlN VI NhS
Tai Ping power. a power that is steadily
growing and patiently making for its Ill
innate object-the overthrow of the line
that usurped the throne $50 years ago.
The Chinese who stand for return of
the old kings occupy a vast stretch of ter
ritory covering an area of 10000 square
mixes. with its northern boundary extend
ing $50 miles along the Yangtse and run
ming south in an irregular breadth of
from 300 to 800 miles. The provinces en-
braced in this section of the empire con-
tain from 90, 100000 to 9f,O00O00 people. Ana
these millions ever keep alive the belief
that some day they will be able to rise
again and do away with the Manchu dy-
nasty.
These people are intelligent fatalists;
they never quarrel with facts And Their
patience is deep az the sea. They will
wait for the opportunity, and when it
comes they will strike,
TIL that time China will never be at