Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1900-09-19
THE BOXER OUTBREAK.
Chinese Version Of the Cause of
the Present Trouble.
OPINION OF PRINCE KWAEG 81,

In Letter to the Chinese Consul
General ut snn Francisco He Says
the Trouble Wns Caused by For
eiEners Grossly Insulting Dowager
Empress on the Streets.
George Dewey Fung. young China
man employed in tea store In Tren-
ton, has received Il letter from Wing
Hop, the Chinese consul general Mt san
Francisco, In which that official re-
lates the different causes which have
led up to the present crisis in China.
says the Philadelphia Times. The con-
ksul general is an intimate friend of
young Fung, and correspondence has
been going on between them for some
3time.
4 When the trouble began, Flung wrote
to the consul general asking him to
write to some official connected with
= the Chinese government for the Chi
hese version Of the cause Of the trouble,
land few weeks ago the consul re-
Scelved letter from Prince Kwang Su,
dated July 1, and sent from the impe-
4 rial palace at Picking. He Immediately
Forwarded the letter he received to
young Fung. 1t is written on red paper
land in one corner is stamped with the
4 Imperial coat Of arms. According to
the consul 1t Is the first authentic YER
(sion of the Chinese side of the present
swar question. The letter reads as fol-
lows:
In your letter you ask for my opinion
Ia regard to the real cause Of the upris-
|Eng Of the Boxers. l can give 1t to you
, b very few words.
L 1t realiy began Jan. !, the empress
Birthday, and the hatred has grown
Greater and greater each day against
Foreigners until you see what it has
how reached.
1, myself, as you know, have always
Favored the admittance Of foreigners
f Ind giving to the missionaries the right
\ 10 preach their different doctrines at
bill times and places. But In this trou-
bile the foreigners are somewhat to
blame, but not all.
4 Jan. 1, the empress birthday, was
celebrated with the usual pomp and
ceremony, as 1t always Is, and we had
bur usual procession about the city.
When the carriage containing her
majesty drew near the Hungarian
Z quarter, near the main gate, it was
stopped by large crowd of Hungarl
Nns, including several missionaries.
Chey made n great noise and called our
kovereign many vile names, and the
troops had to be called out to dispense
chem. Five Of the missionaries who,
Think, owing to their sympathy for the
Emperor, encouraged their people to In
&ult her majesty, were arrested and
but in prison and n strong guard was
laced about the Hungarian quarters.
n AS soon rs the Hungarian minister
&earned Of their Imprisonment he went
t once to the imperial palace and de-
banded that they be released. The
& Impress refused to grant his request,
&aying that she heard Of the fights that
4 had been occurring between her peo-
BILE and the Hungarians for some time.
She said that she was told that the
Z rouble was always caused by their In
quilting some Of the Chinese as they
assed through that quarter. She told
lhe minister that she did not believe 1t
Until she personally encountered the
lame insults.
a Her refusal to release the misslona-
les was met with a storm of indigna-
on on the part of the Hungarians.
wo nights after their Imprisonment
ley all turned out and stormed the
a ill and Overpowered the guards. The
oops were called out, and the Hunga-
ans began firing at them, killing
any. The troops returned the fire,
bd many people fell, including women
hd children. When the news Of the
sultlng of the empress, the attack on
he prisoners and the encounter with
: e troops reached the other provinces,
- feeling against foreigners grew
very bitter.
After this have known many Of our
own people to openly insult foreigners
ON the street. not because they were
justified In doing so. but out of pure
l soon learned that missionaries In
the other provinces were attacked and
killed by our people, but | believe that
the real cause Of these uprisings was
that they wished to ayenge the insult
upon the empress at Picking. Soon |
learned of the Boxers taking the mat
ter in hand, and the result you know.
30 there is no use in my explaining