The Washington times., 1901-08-11
THE BOXERS SUCCESSO RS.
A New Society Whose Purpose 1t
Is to Expei Foreigners.
Efforts to Incite Reputation of the
Claims for acknowledgements of
Russia In Mnnchurin - Plans for
the Courts Return to Pekin.

the Courts Return to Pekin.
NEW YORK, Aug IA correspondent
of the Commercial Advertiser" writing
from Pekin. says:
Now it is the Lienchuan-hui, the sue
cessors of the Boxers, who are engaging
| attention. They are developing strength
under Liu Tien-ling. Minister of. War, and
formerly Governor of Kiang-su, and are
reported to have a force of 2p,GO in the
southern regions of Chill. The flags of
the Lienchuan-hui Cvillage union) give the
clue to it's purposes: they bear the legend
| Save China; expel the foreigner and
the unions first step is to take means to
| prevent the payment of the indemnity.
| We have heard rumors as to the forma-
| ton of this association for some time. and
| the enquiries conducted by the French at
! Paoting have confirmed the reports OF
the growth of a really formidable body.
| with Headquarters at Yen-chow, which
| lies due north Of Paoting, and virtually in
possession of five districts in that locality.
| Ex-Boxers and disbanded soldiery COM
| pose the union. Circulars have been dis
tributed in all directions, even as far as
| Tientsin, calling upon the people to rise
| in protest against the. payment of the IN
| demnity to the foreigners. The union has
also memorialized the throne against the
payment of the sum demanded by the
! Powers. and it is said that they have
threatened to intercept the Court on its
way to Pekin and take violent means of
preventing the payment if other steps
| fail .-,
"A messenger from Tung Flushing has
| been apprehended while he was on his
| way to Tien leader of the union. with
letter. informing the latter that it was his
| CTung's) intention to join the union with
a large force. The plan has been inter-
rupted by rains, but would be carried out
| as soon as opportunity offered. Ii Hung
| Chang and Prince Ching pretend to De-
| lieve that the capture of this message
was merely a scheme to obtain reward
| from them, but it is plain that serious
view is taken of the disturbance in Chill,
| from the fact that Governor Yuan SHIN
| kai and another general have been ordered
| to send a force against the Lienchuan-hui
THE appearance of this union, identical
| in spirit with the Iho-chuans, persistentiy
| called Boxers, comes somewhat sooner
than had been expected, but it may be re-
| membered that this correspondence mas
| all along reflected the best opinion here
| to the effect that there would be a re-
crudescence of the anti-foreign movement.
W.
| pected? a country is oyerrun, ravished.
and despoiled; the causes which gave rise
to the provocation which preceded this
spoIiation remain; what more natural
than that the provocation should be re-
peated as soon as the re4enger's back Is
turned? a Chinaman with whom / have
frequently discussed the future of his
country put the matter to me in this char
acteristically Chinese way: IL a farmer
wishes to rid his field, say of thistles or
some other pest, he knows that cutting on
a few heads is useless. The whole crop
must be eradicated A few heads more or
less in China will not make a new China.
The soil bears thistles as naturally as
Christian lands do grain. China must get
a new heart; otherwise there VIII be noth-
ing but thorns and thistles to the end
For all l know the disturberS in Chill
may turn out to be collection of bandits
bent only on taking advantage of the IN
terregnum between the withdrawal of the
foreigners and the establishment OF
local government, but the reports as to
their purposes and conduct do not suggest
this; they suggest only the same patriotic
Of MISTAKEN motives which ,actuated the
Boxers But If they are not the successors
of the latter those successors are sure to
make their appearance, and that at no far
distant date.
Russia is having the first taste of seri-
Gus trouble in Ianchuria> Insurgents in
Sinking number several thousand, it is
reported, and it is certain that they are
strong enough to have obtained posses
sion of Kiu-lien-ching. The effect of the
disturbance is felt even in Win beyond
the Manchurian frontier. Russia has "a
garrison in Feng-Hwang, but its strength
is not sufficient to cope with the rebel
lion. and re-enforcements will have to be
sent from Port Arthur or -AIukden. a
proceeding which will take some time. A
great number of Chinese have fled from
Ta-tung to Chefoo. the insurgents hay
ing brought the former place within the
sphere of their operations. The flight OF
these people indicates that the disturbers
have not succeeded in gaining the sym
pathy of the people in general and for
this reason l do not believe the revolt, if
it may be called that, will reach danger
Gus proportions. The fugitives represent
the whole of Sinking in a state of
turbulence, even to the gates of Muk-
den, and say that the Russians have not
a large enough force to preserve order.
German and japanese military officers at
Shan hai-kwan have asked for permits
sion to proceed in IT Russian ship with
the object of observing and reporting
upon the disorders in Antung
THE inference to be drawn from the dis
turbance is that Russia made a mistake
when she insisted that all the Chinese
troops in Manchuria should be disband-
ed. This step threw a large disordery
element upon the country, and at the
same time China was deprived of her
only means Of suppressing turbulence
Russia is, Furthermore, criticised for TAX
ing oVer the immense province before she
was able to preserve ord,r in it. Out
breaks of more or less seriousness have
been the rule rather than the exception
ever since the Mukden agreement was
signed.
An imperial decree recently commanded
a number of high eX-officials to hasten
slowly in Chinese phrase, TO Pekin to
Among those 50 ordered were Kuei-Ch' un
and Ho-Nai-ying. Kuei was grain taotai
Of Shantung and later provincial judge |
and member of the Tsung Yamen. Eo |
was Vice Governor of Mukden in 1898 and |
finally Governor Of Pcktn. Upon learning |
of the appointment of these men the |
British Minister notified Ii Hung Chang |
that they were emphatically persona non |
grata ald Ii wired to Hsian in this sense. |
Doubtless the Dowager has a couple more |
villains ready to substitute for those OBJ /
jected to. The incident is mentioned to l
show that at least one Power does not |
intend to submit to the presence In au-
thority at Pekin Of officials guilty of ac- |
tive completely in last years disturbances. |
IL will be rather difficult to continue these |
objections should the Court show a dis
position to appoint one rascal after an
other.
The 'Pekin Gazette can scarcely be
described as newspaper, and. besides