Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1903-02-05
OUTBREAK AT HAND.
China Planning to Repeat Work
of 1900.

advices received from North China
fears are being entertained that China
is planning another outburst sim ar to
that of 1900. Tue North China Daily
News says:
''1t has been learned on good authority
that Yung Lu, the real ruler Of China.
and the man who is reported to be re-
sponsible for the murder OF Professor
Hubert James, of the Pekin University.
will centralize the command of the mil
itary forces of the empire, or at least
the provinces north of the Yangtse
under himself and his henchmen Yuan
Shih Kai and Tung Fuhsiang. The plot
for the, simultaneous murder OF for
eigners in 1900 failed, owing to the un-
willingness of so many Viceroys and
Governors to carry out the order tele
graphed to hem. On the next occasion,
the order is to be sent to the military
officials whose implicit obedience may
military officials is 'supeliors can do no
wrong Subordinates haye no concern
with the morality of an order, nor with
consequences following obedience 10
it,"
A correspondent Of the Shanghai pa
per says:
"a census of Christian converts has
been carried out and neighbors are to be
held responsible for an exact declara-
ton as to all friends of foreigners in
each group of 10 families" F."
From other sources the paper learns
that threa is are being made in several
provinces against foreigners such AS
"next time not one will escape" which
is current in Shensi. eve will not
leave one ocean demon alive in Shensi
and Kansu," is the b'ast of Tung
FuhsiaDg's regiments and, 'the friends
of the foreigners will hereafter suffer for
it,"
The North China News, in the course
of long article headed ga Note Of
Warning" says:
"It is an anxious time for the d.
plomatic body at Pekn. The strenuous
efforts of Yung Lu to concentrate all
power IN his own hands and those of
his henchmen, the dispositions that
Yuen Shi Kai is making of his we'll
drilled and well-armed troops round the
capital and at Shan Hal Kwan; the
energy with which arming and drilling,
especially of the Manchu troops9 at the
capital are being pressed on; the
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powder factories of the empre-these
movements are all compatible with the
truth of the alarming rumors that reach
us from the northwest. Are we yet
walking over treacherous ashes under
which the fires are still burning?''
The disturbances in West Che kiang
continue. The insurgents, who were
defeated by the troops seut against
them, rallied and cut up the regulars SO
badly that they retired to Yenchon to
await reinforcements. A thousand inn
perial troops were sent and the in
surgents took to the hills. The in
habitants of Yenchou Flu prefecture and
districts near bv We're piiaged, churches,
chapels and houses of converts being
burned. The fl himes could be seen for
miles, and the roads leading to Sang
Chow were dotted with thousends Of
men, women and children of the better
classes, fleeing for refuge. The in
surgents number 200, and many were
joining their movements.
The kiangnan arsenal has been work
ing night and day for some time turning
out quick k-fring field pieces AID mountain
guns which are being hurried to the
Governor at Manning for nse against the
Kwan 81 rebles in the south. The