The daily morning Alaskan., 1901-05-25

Surely one need not to be purltani- cal or historical Co condemn the whole sale ravishing. sometimes to death, oi terrified females between the ages ot 0 and Go by clod-hopping. brutish sol diers. who miSrepreSent alike Chris ,ianity and civilization. know a man whose wife had been dealt with m this manner. and then killed along with her child
 "He was one of the good and loyal people who were on excellent terms with the Christians. but ii he ever gets a change of wreaking vengeance on the foreigners he will not lightly let it slip. know of other Chinamen whose wives and daughters hanged themselves on trees or drowned them selves in garden wells Co escape a much worse lot. Chinese women hon cstlv believe that no more terrible fate could ovcrtakc them than Co fall alive into the hands of Europeans or Christ ianS. And it is to be feared that they were right.
 "Buddhism and Coniucianism have their martyrs and chastity whose hero- ic icats no martyrdom will ever record Some of those obscure but right-mind- cd women hurled themselves into the river. and. finding only three feet of water there. kept their heads under the surface until death had set his seal on the sacrifice of their lie
 Again Dr. Dillon writes:
 This suicidal ircncy was catching it sometimes spread like wildhre, and the military authorities felt bound Go stop it by force X number oi soldiers, possibly with one or other of the would-bc criminals among them. were sent Co the rescue. And they succeeded in saving the lives of many But they complained that some of the women were doggcdly resolved Co die In the water they offered strong and often successful resistance Co the efforts ot their would-bc Saviors.
 There is a woman missionary in pcLiu who. m company with female colleague busted herself Co my know ledge for month m shcltcriug Chinese women and girl, from being assaulted by Christian andEuropcan soldiers. and thc work was any,hin but easy. though ! have reasons to believe that 10 has proved cmiucutly successful Even in the broad daylight soldiers hung about the refugees and employ various devices and tricks Co get hold oi thc women whom they ought Co have been the first Co protect
 Examples Co prove this point are: " What iu heavens name is this, ! exclaimed one day humping my kuucklc, on a very big black box in thc house of a rich man who may have then been m Abraham's bosom or in Dives company The house was in Tungtschlu. the Sombcr receptacle in one oi the largest rooms and a tor turing stcnch procccdc from it.
 'lt Is thc girls, sir. three girls, ' answered. my attendant. who was a European Their corpscs are lying iu the box there. he explained
 Who put them thcrcg
 Some officers
 " Yes. sir. was here when i, was being done
 Did you see the young women yourscli%
 T jid They were thc daughter, oi thc man who owned thc house. The officers asau'tcd them and then had them stabbed with bayonc,s When they were dead they were ."i into this box and it was covered up. That sort of thing happened before Sir Very often. too. can tell you There was worse than this, my attendant added. These women were ravishcd and stab, bed. others have been ravished Go death
 George Lynch. an English cores poricnt. who has seen service in Cuba and South Africa. was commissioned by two London newspaper, Co accom- plny thc allied forces Co Pckin. Some oi ,hc facts he recitcs, all youched for by himself are:
 "I shall never forget the day oi our arrival in Tuug Chow Russians and Japanese were going through the city. [ was riding along iu a deep sunkcu space between the wall and some high ground on which the houses there were ! built There was a sheer drop oi con l siderable height between the walls oi che houses and thc stony road below | The shout, oi the Russians. mingled