The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-10
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HIS FA|T H
Yuan Chang a Martyr
To His Convictions.
THE NEWS OF THE ORIENT
Hongkong Plague Statistics Ger
many Fits Up Hospital at
Nagasaki.

court by the devoted minister, Yuan
Chang, before his outspoken patriotism
had brought upon him cruel death
at the hands of the Empress DowaSer
and her clique. They form an earnest
appeal to reason, pointing out the toI-
ly of the Boxer movement, the wicked
ness of its leaders and the futility of
the attempt to exterminate foreigners.
The memorialist urges that the gov
ernmental patronage of Boxers was
likely to precipitate upon the country
a calamity greater than any recorded
in a thousand years of it's history. The
TAPPING rebellion lasted more than ten
years and involved a large number of
provinces. The Mohammedan uprising
in the northwest devastated four prov
inces and continued for three or four
years. But these might be compared
to diseases of the hands or feet, while
the Boxer uprising strikes at the very
heart. Everyone recognized the Tap
ings as banditti, but the Boxers are
designated as patriots and raised to
positions of trust. Thus China has in
CURED, not only the enmity of foreign
nations, but their ridicule as well.
He then proceeds to analyze and con-
trovert the Boxer motto: Elevate the
dynasty and exterminate the foreign
ers." The Using dynasty, he observes,
has fioWished for more than two hum
dred years and all the people have par
taken of the blessings conferred by it
upon the land. To say that it is in
need of elevation is to imply that it
has fallen or is about to fall, and the
very thought is in itself treason. AS for
eXterminating foreigners, if only the
foreigners now in China were intended,
but little good would result from the
operation for it would be impossible to
prevent the arrival of others in even
larger numbers. If it were proposed to
exterminate all foreigners, the folly of
the idea was evident and needed no
since the Chinese were out
by them ten to one.
The memoralist says he knows well
it does not conduce to the welfare of
China to have foreigners swarming in
the interior of the country, but the only
way for China to protect herself is to
perfect her internal administration,
carefully guard her international rela
lions, and then watch her opportunity.
If war must be made, then it would be
wiser to select one of the weakest
western nations, instead of attacking
all at once.
Yuan Chang earnestly. endeavors TO
convince the authorities of the falslty
of the reports received concerning the
destruction of foreign warShipS and
the Tientsin settlement and the success
of the imperial armies in general.
"They contain he says, mo more of
truth than the report sent in by Tung
Fuh-tsiang that all the foreigners with
in the legations had been killed"
The memorialist denounces the reac-
ministers who had patroniZed
the Boxers, deceived the court and
the ruin of their country. 1t
must have been by this time perfectly
clear to the writer that, in tn existing
state of affairs, no man could utter such
trenchant truths and still continue to
live. He accordingly throws aside all
reserve and speaks as only man can
who has freed himself alike from hope
and from fear. He openly asks for the
capital punishment of Hiu Tung, Kang
vi, Chi Stu, Chao Shaotiao, Yu Luh.
Yu Hsien and Tung Fuhtsiang, speci-
fying the crimes of which each has been
guilty and using against them the ar
guments with which the whole civil
lied world has since become familiar.
He does not mention by name any of
the imperial Princes, but adds: All
who have been guilty of the same
crimes should be judged by the same
law without reference to lofty position
or royal blood" Only such action, ne
can convince the western
world that the Boxer atrocities were
not committed in accordance with the
iol will a his willing
ness to die if necessary for the cause
which he has espoused, and concludes
that if his own life must answer fer
those of the men whom he has denounc-
ed, he is ready to enter the lower woyid
smilingly and with no thought of re-
sentiment.
NEW GERMAN HOSPITAL.
One of the leading foreign hotels of
will shortly close its doors for
a period of at least three years For
some time past the German Govern
ment through it's local consulate, mas
been trying to secure eligible premises
in Nagasaki for the accommodation of
and sick troops from
North China. The hospital ship Gera,
permanently stationed at Nagasaki as
the receiving vessel for German troops.
Is taxed to it's utmost capacity and
receive any more patients, and
the Wittekind, another hospital ship, |
has also a large number of sick and !
on board. The labors of |
he medical stats of these vessels will |
De considerably lightened shortly, for |
he German authorities have secured a |
ease of the Cliff House." Nagasaki, |
Tor three years, and the premises are |
% be used as a convalescent home for |
hose troops who are well on the road |
o recovery. 1t is stated that the sum |
paid for the Cliff House is Y. 900 a |
PLAGUE STATISTICS.
Dr. Francis Clark's report on the cpl |
1emic of plague in Hongkong during
he current year has been made public. /
The total number of cases reported was |
,0S2. Since then but two have occurred,
which only very slightly affects the
tatistics. OF the previous 1882 cases
mentioned in the report, all but % We're
lmong the Chinese. while of the total
# 1,034 deaths all but Is were among
he Chinese. The case mortality, there