Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-28

Jameson RAID. L had many friends
among them. But now they have taught
US lesson" The burning of farms by
the British had caused a feeling of the
deepest resentment. ~ used to hear
said prisoner with flashing eyes, THAT
If you burn a mans house down you
make soldier of him. Now | have
seen it all around me, and know that If
you burn mans house down you make
a coward into a hero" Mrs. Green
was asked what the British policy was
going to be after the war. She told the
Beers that the British having annexed
the country were determined to govern
1t. &c GU mean a military governor to
be sent out, with large force to support
him, and to make the Transvaal a crown
colony for tlme?' Yes said. For
moment they said nothing, but every
man sat up straight from leaning for
ward to hear me, and each turned to his
neighbor with short, scornful sort of
laugh, and a bright, kindled face"
Some day these people must be sent
to South Africa, after brooding for a
year or more over the loss of their in
dependence, the destruction of their
farms and their separation from wives
and children. Mrs. Green urges the
government to so treat them that they
will not carry away harsh memories of
their captivity and will have learned the
meaning of equal rights under British
rule.-New York Evening Sun.
900
GENERAL CHAFEE TESTIFIEs TO THE
CRIME OF CIVILIZATION.
General Chafee is not in the white
washing business, like some civilians
who were witnesses to the war in China.
lie does not deny that atrocities were
committed and then turn about and
Justify them by saying that there were
no innocent Chinese. But he tells
plain, straightforward story of a great
International crime, which lacks only
wealth of detail to he as sensational as
anything that has been written by
George Lynch or DR.. Dillon.
Picking, he says, was given over to I'M
restrained, or almost unrestrained, loot
ing for three weeks after the capture.
There was uncontrolled foraging in the
surrounding country also, seizure by
soldiers of everything Chinaman might
have as vegetables, eggs, chickens,
sheep, cattle, etc, whether being brought
to the city or found on the farms
Furthermore. as the "sensationalists"
have said in their "exaggerated' re-
ports. there was "indiscriminate and un-
provoked shooting of Chinese in city and
country and along the line of march and
the river" And the general adds;
II is safe to say that where one real Boxer
has been killed since the capture of Peklng
fifty harmless coolies or laborers on farms,
not few women and children,
have been slain. No doubt the Boxer ele-
ment is largely mixed with the mass of popu.
lation, and by Staying lot one or more
Boxers might be taken in.
1t would be interesting to know Just
what the number of dead Boxers was, so
that we could make an exact computa-
ton on the slaughter of the innocents
whose blood is crying out the lesson of
civilization to their countrymen. We
may well believe, however, without this |
data that there were many thousands of |
the victims, for eyewitness who had no
reasons of their own for paliating the
excuses of soldiers saw corpses every
where along the march upon the shores
and in the river Just as the words of the |
general indicate that they must have |
done. Lynch speaks of the burden of |
dead bodies that the Pei-ho carried down,
and says that on one day alone he |
the corpses of five girls and |
among them. Among the wan.
ton murders committed in Peking were |
those of a defenseless woman and her |
two children. 1t was frightful, wan
ton crime, appalling in its details, bat
there was Just such needless slaughter |
on every punitive expedition, and the |
story has never been cOnvincingly |
denied that from 1000 TO 5000 Chinese |
men, women and children were dr. ven |
into the Amur river by the Russians and |
drowned.
All the horrors of the Imaginary mas
sacre of Chris tians in the capital have |
been repeated in the actual massacres of |
he heather and more. There has not |
been such another orgy in modern his
-ory. For the time being the reversion