The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-17
CIVILIZATION Of CHINA
THE ALLIES WAY MAKES THE
HORRORS OF WAR SEEM
MERCIFUL
RAvAGES OF FIRE AND SWORD
Thirst for Blood Gives License
to Murder, PIIIage and
Attacks Upon
Women.

In the Contemporary Review for this
month, under the title Of 1.-THE Chinese
Wolf and the European Lamb" Mr. e. J.
Dillon presents in narrowing details an
account of the maSsacres of the Chinese
by the so-called allied European soldiery.
For want of humanity the writer &C
cuses the Russians. the French and the
Germans 1.-The doings of some of these
apostles of culture" writes Mr. Lillon,
were so heinous that even the plea of
their having been perpetrated upon wild
savages would not rid them from the
nature of crimes" This is the descrip-
ton of a scene at the bar of the Taku,
toward the mouth of the Pei-ho.
Dead bodies of Cinnamon were floating
seaWard, some with eyes agape and
aghast, others with brainless skulls and
eyelesS sockets, and nearly all of them
wearing their blue blouses, baggy trous-
ers. and black glossy pig-tails. Many of
them looked as if they were merely SWIM
ming on their backs. lowering over each
was dense cloud of flies, and higher
still, in the hot, heavy air. unclean birds
OF prey wheeling round and round, but
never on>e descending. They had long
been battening on shore, and had grown
Squealnlsh. The sky was stagnate with
heat; the air quickened to fire, and
quivered till its vibrations were visible
to the eye; there was not breath of wind
to stir the LEAKAGE of the willows on the
one could descry the heads of men sway
ing from side to side with a motion veT7
different from drifting. On drawing
nearer and looking through glasses,
became aware that scores Of Cinnamon
scattered over the space of many miles
were up to their necks in water. Each
and every one of these toilers of the sea
was standing upon stills fishing for Soles,
and holding a net, which he worked with
both hands. Their heads were impcr-
fectly shielded from the suns blistering
rays by the coils of their plated IL y,
and their bodies up to their necks had
been soaking thus in brine since early
morning. These men were working for
the surviving members of their families
t'ar as they were away from each other,
Iney We're StllI more distant from tho
shore, the nearest stretch of which was
some three miles off. Now, none of these
busy fishermen ever moved away from
the the bodies OF their townsmen, wnich
kept floating slowly past, each accom-
panied by its black cloud OF flies, and In
fecting the air for many a rood around.
Those wretched helots who thus left the
dead to bury their dead had little Of tie
magic power that exciteS fellow feeling.
and 1t would have stood them In poor
stead If they had possessed it. Yet they
sorely needed solace; for their souls were
as completely STEPPED in misery as their
bodies were IN water. Funny fellows,
the Chinese; heartless brutes,' was the
only comment I heard as we sailed past,
and other scenes gradually unrolIed
After having left Tien-Tsin Mr.. Dillon
went by river into the neighboring coun-
try.
RAVAGES OF FIRE AND SWORD.
Fire and sword had put their marks
upon this entire country. The untram-
pied corn was rotting in the fields, the
pastures were herdIess, roofless the ruins
of houses, the hamlets devoid of inhabi-
tants. In all the villages we passed the
desolation was the same Day after day,
hour after hour, sometimes minute after
minute NH Hi bloated GoEpses' Pillowed on the
getting entangled in the sropes, now
caught by an obstacle near the shore
Three liVid corpses were thus held fast
on little islet in midstream, and the
shadows around kept me a few yards
to the lee of them for not less than six
hours Of scorchingly hot day. Hard
by spot named KOh So saw two bod
les on low-lyinS ledge Of the shore. Ac-
customed by this time to behold in the
broad light of day some of the horrors
which the soil of the graveyard hides
from all living things but the worm, 1
should have glided carelessly past them
but for the pathOs of their story, which
needed no articulate voice to tell. A
tather and his boy of eight had been shot
down in the name of civilization while
holding each others hands and praying
Tor mercy. And there they lay, hand sill
holding hand, while a brown dog was
Slowly eating one of the arms Of the
sight would appeal with force; to China
men 1t is the embodiment of spiritual
as well as physical misery, for the son
VINO should have kept his fathers mem
DRY allVe in this world, and been help
ful to him in the world to come, had hee,,
cut down as well as himself IT was Iikn
Killing a man In his sins SO as TO insure
his eternal damnation, which was one Of
the many forms of assassination in me-
o1aeVal Italy. looked at the faces of
the little boy and his father, and can
see them still, as clearly and almost as
concretely as l saw them on the dav
Truly 1t is not 'sickly sentimentaIity;
mat marks the attitude of Eur0pean
culture bearers toward China"
The terrible conditions in Tung-Tschau
are thus described:
Il speak as an eyewitness when saw
for example, that over and over again
the cutters of the city of Tung-Tschau
ran red with blood, and l Sometimes
found it impossible to go my way with
out getting my boots despatched with
human gore There were few shops. nri-
Vate houses and court yards without dead
bod1es and pools of dark blood Amid =
native population whose very souls oI9k
ed with fear at sight of a rifle. revolvsr
or military uniform, reign of red terror
was inaugurated for which there seems
no adequate motive. Even If all the Chi
rese within the city walls had risen in
revolt against the foreigners. the latter