The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-29
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HELL TURNED LOOSE IN CHINA

record of massacres of the Chinese by
alleged Christians. and a most disgust
ing revelation OF b~rutaities and bar
barities perpetrated in China b. the
soldiers SEN out from European ma
tions pretending to worship God and to
obey His commandments. They are a
disgrace to the very name Of Christian
and are as internal and deprayed in
their conduct as sayages in any g or
country have ever been. No one who
has not read the statements made by
two distinguished Englishmen, Sir
Robert Hart, the most important man
of his country in far away China, who
sets forth his views and observations
in the Fortnightly Review: and DR.. E.
J. Dillon, on the scene who writes in
the Contemporary Review. You must
understand that those are two Of the
several greatest Reviews of Great
Britain. Their testimony shows that
the soldiers in China have brought a
great reproach upon their country and
upon the profession of arms They
have eclipsed the much abused Boxers.
fighting on their own territory n
against people they regarded as enc
mics, in barbarity and general wicked
ness. They have helpless
women and ii men and children. 1t
is now known beyond the shadow of a
shade of doubt tha the soldiers in
China have been worse by far than the
Boxers were lin cruelty, IN
outrage, in rapine and ravage- Sir
Robert Hart, highest possible authority
declares that the days of TaepIngdom,
when native wa-~ad with native. show
eI nothing wo- re than the atrocities
eommitted by the allied forces in China.
DR.. Dillon goes into details. and they
are awful in the extreme. He knows
of the cruel Turkish massacres IN Ar
menia, and it was he who gave TO the
world the full. authentic account. Inc
Evening Post says of his eVelations'
Certainly no one but a man with
nerves of steel could have witnessed
the sights which he beheld in emma
and come away sane. His reports are
too horrible. in their darkest features
TO be reprinted.
He is an eye witness remember. Inc
Evening Post summarizing says:
..Tbi was but an example of the way
in which thousands of men, women,
and children, throughout three Chlnese
nrovinces. were b~utchered on Suspicion,
or out of mere within. The rivers Were
choked with corpses. The dead lay III
heaps in the burned towns Neilhef
z nor sex was spared. LII. DlHon
pages show that all the wholesale muir
ders and fortunes of history-the mas
sacre of the innocents by Herod, Hne
Dragonades, the slaughter OF the wal
denses, even the Cutting OF IurhiSn
fury in Bulgaria and
yield IN completeness OF horror 10 the
work of the soldiers of Christian ma
tons, who had gone to China Tor the
sake of rebuking heather cruelties!
On one aspect of DR.. billions revela-
lions we can touch but shudderlngly
we pass. This is the frightful eX-
of the frightful crimes against
Chinese women Some of the specific
cases he gives would be incredible, did
he not cite names and places and de-
clare what his own eyes had seen. we
=eem to be reading Of u~nspeakable
T.Onsters."
We make a short extract from what
Dillon writes:
Il knew of others whose wives and
daughters hanged themselves on trees
" drowned themselves in garden wells,
n order to escape a much worse lot.
chinese women honestly believed thai
10 more terrible fate could overtake
hem than to fall alive into the hands
# Europeans and Americans And II
5 TO be feared that they were right.
= Some of those obscure. but right
minded, girls and women hurled them
into the river. and. finding only
hree feet of water there. kept their
eads under the surface until death
led set his seal on the sacrifice of their
But a large number of i'll
,tarred women fell alive into the hands
# the allied troops. j saw some OF
hem in Pekin and Tungtschau, but al
eady dead, with frightful gasheS in the
,reast, or skulls smashed in. and one
With a horribly multilated body.
If there is anything more superlative-
Y deyilish and cruel than this in all
history we do not recall it. 1t reads
Ike a page torn from the records OF
Of the earlier histories and dead
.ations rather than from an account
f the supposed Christian nations"tO
f the last year of the nineteei tn CEN
ury. The robberies. burningS, 1GotlnSs
we're refined and commendabic wher :
beside the enormous brutalities
nd u~nbridled savagery of the invading
of Europe.
Be 1t said to the everlasting credit
ma honor of the American soldiers
hey took no hand in the barbarities OF I
other troops. DR.. Dillon eXonerateS +.
all from the very a things. He {
what they did We're minor ana
poradic," He also bears witness TO
he fact that so far as he is informed
officer of either the German or Eng +,
army took any part in 1.-The abom-
nations against defenseless women"
The Japanese set good examples aid
behaved we'll. The Evening Post
They were, he says. the on!V power
,mong the allies who understood the
atives. gained their confidence, re-
Itored perfect order. and re-es.ablisned
he regin of law This was heaplng