The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-17

Norable impression Of salt Lake, for
surely no representative of King Ed
ward or any other king ever viewed
zion under more favorable circum-
stances As Sir Claude remarked last
evening, If Salt Lake Is always en-
NelOped in such sunshine as this, /
should love TO remain Indefinitely
Upon their arrival yesterday the
members Of Britain's nobility were
met at the station by Colonel l. A. Ben
ION Of the Rio Grande Western, who
had provided carriages. and were driv-
en- at once to the Knutsford, at the
request of Sir Claude, who desired
above all things a bath after the long
and dusty ride from the coast. After
breakfast the VISITORS were taken for
q drive around town, escorted by
Colonel Benton, and after lunch they
We're driven TO the tabernacle, where
they sat through the services and
heard the organ and choir. At 4.20
the party boarded the train for Salt
air and at d they returned spending
the evening quietly at the hotel
Sir Claude Mcdonald, unlike good
many members 81 the nobility is gen
timely affable. almost genial and gem
tlemsnly in every act ind tone. He
readily consented to talk TO newspaper
men at the kuutsfCrd last evening on
all subjects, save the future of China.
which he avoids for the reason, ne
says. that ne has not been there since
October and would not care to say
anything on matters of which he has
no official knowledge.
In appearance he is tall and slender.
His bearing is decidedly military and
his presence commanding. He is
blonde in complexion and has a steel
gray eye that might have pierced the
PeSia wall without the provision OF q
iu a blue serge coat and baggy creek
cred trousers, very English in style,
and q golf cap.
Talks Of Pelzin Siege.
When asked for something on his
IMPRESSIONS of the siege of PeSin, Sir
claude drew at his cigarette thought
fully and replied: wen, III tell you,
the most remarkable thing II observed
was the uuanimity in action displayed
1y the nations represented at the ie-
Rations-the United States, French
German. Austrian. japanese, Russian
and English representatives. Each had
its detachment Of troops. and they all
worked together without The slightest
break in the friendly relations which
existed throughout the siege. OF
course it, was necessary that we pull
together. FOR we realized that, at one
time at least, we were fighting for our
lives But Ct is doubtful TO my mind
that so many powers ever worked so
tremendously in the history Of the
world.
The question h1s often been asked
how it was that our force of 500 could
hold out for cight weeks against 4,0CJ
or 1000 Chinese. who completely sur
rounded us There are two reasons.
one was that the men pitted against
us were not regulars, but represented
the Chinese militia. They came from
kansu where she people are mostly
1Tohamrnedans. our position WIS COM
manded by q wall It would have been
posi- Bile for the enemy TO she'll us with
out losing a man, instead OF making
repeated attacks with infantry ana
light artillery. But our salvation lay
rHffTrrs erraf &
palace was not more than 200 yards
from the legation houses, and she is
sued an edict that the large siege guns
should not be used, to- fear that her
Two reasons We held out the eight
weeks. we disccvtred later that the
attacking forces were equipped with
better guns than we. and had they con-
-aight have been dideTent
Sir CLAUDE is of the opinion that
there were several causes leading up
10 the trouble in Chinh.
Thu have IN northern China
what IS known as winter wheat,
NE continued. Thousands and
tens Of thousands Of Chinese
1abOrers are employed to harvest It.
The crop had turned out badly The
laborers were thrown cut of work.
Starvation stored them in the face. The
result was that the Boxers secret So
es-tv. through this condition, made inn
mc'1se numbers OF converts, who We're
sulmng tc cut a throat whenever it was
convenient. or do Anything on God s.
earth TO get food. The government was
uneasy ~ this time, too. 1T had lost
Port Arthur and other strategic sta
lions to three different governments
II simply concluded that Il things Went
on ID would BE- cut q short while before
st owned nothing. Then it was it
utilized all the Boxers and converts as
q tool Heretofore this element had
been equipped with little oesldes fsnat-
fcisua. Vpden &c was joined by the 5ga-
perfal trooes7and given arms, we zeal
led. ne<naps for the first tmet that
We wGfe ighting for our lives
eFor six weeks we had nothing TO eet