The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-01-18
WITHDRAWN TOO SOON.
Rev. ]. Addison Ingle Says
That America Recalled Her
Troops too Soon and That
Affairs Are a Long Way
From Settlement.

Rev. j. Addison Ingle, son of
Rev. Osborn Ingle, the we'll
known pastor of All Saints Epis-
copal church, this city. has writ
ten his father a long letter about
the condition of affairs in China.
The letter was written at IIankow
where he is stationed as ms.
siOnary and is dated Novem Der
%, 1900. 1t is in part as follows:
1--WE were surprised to get let.
tiers from Shanghai today which
show that some, at least, of our
people there are good deal
alarmed for us. 1t was a great
surprise, because we were not
alarmed for ourselves and are not
now. One of the Shanghai pa
perS stated that the wretched
DOwager had sent orders to all
the Niceroys to prepare for i'm
mediate war with the allies. That
may or may not be true, but it is
pretty well established that Ii
Hung Chang telegraphed to our
Nlceroy that peace was impossible
and he must prepare for war.
"That message came several
days ago. Nothing has been
done about it and traffic goes on
as before on the river. Locally
everything is perfectly quiet,
with every sign of continuing so.
The Yangtze Niceroys have kept
from fighting for many months,
when everything was in their ia
vor and there was a chance of
success. Now that the pick of
their armies has been beaten and
broken up in the North, the court
is in exile; hostile officials in the
North have had their heads taken
off, and there are over a dozen
gunbOatS in the Gangtze, six Of
them now lying here. think it
very unlikely they will be so fool
iSh as to embark on course
which can only end III speedy
ruin for them and partition for
the country. The only thing that
is likely to drive them to fighting
would be an attempt Of the for
eigners to bring an army up here
to cut off supplies for the court,
almost all of which now go up
from Han to Hankow. But the
foreigners have promised not to
do this if the NiceroyS preserve
order. SO it is not likely to
happen.
"ThiS is probably the most
tangled state of political affairs
that the world has ever seen.
The Chinese armies have been de
teated in the North; Pekin and
TientSin destroyed; several Off
Gals who obeyed the Empress
Dowager's commands and muir
dered foreigners have been be-
headed. Operations are still 60
ing on. TO court has fled to a
distant place, to reach which it
endured great hardShips, and
to which large numbers of the
courtierS succum5ed. 1t is now
in the midst of panic-stricken
province, and all its supplies
must come up the Iangtze. Most
of its funds must be collected
from this valley and forwarded
by the very VicerOys who dis
obeyed orders, spared the foreign
ers and are now bound by a prom
Use to the latter to preserve order.
Rice for the court is brought to
Hankow by foreign strangers,
but it is said to be so poor and
dirty that it will be of little use
by the time it reaches Sinan Flu.
"The commissioners appointed
by the court are trying to get the
foreigners to discuss peace; mean
while the Empress is gradually
issuing edicts denouncing her
creatures, who obeyed her orders,
and assigning their punishments.
AT the same time she is making
preparations to continue the fight.
"The allies seem to be still
pushing forward in the North
and trying to circumvent the
willy old Empress, while the for
eign steamers here are carrying
food to enable her to hold out.
She has assigned some pretty Sc
we're penalties to some of the
guilty officials, but no one be
lieves she will have them carried
out unless she is absolutely power
less to prevent it.
81 forgot to add that the Gov
ernor of Shantung Province is
vigorously suppressing the re.
mains of the Boxer movement in
his province, and the allies have
agreed not to send troops there.
In return for their courtesy he
sent them presents of food. So
that, i'll some parts of the country
the allies are at war with the
court and its minions, while in
others they have entered into
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