The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-03-11
BOXERS TO
RISE. AGAIN.
Returned Missionary Tells OF
a Future Full Of Fear.
HER LONG LABOR in CHINA
Miss Lotte Moon is Now in Richmond
After Having Spent Thirty Years
of Her Life in Saving the Souls
ofsthe H eathen-H Her Work.

s Another Boxer uprising, more fearful
in its consequences than that Of a year
\ or two ago, when the nations Of the
word We're forced to rush to the rescue
OF foreigners in danger Of being entombed
in q heather land. Is thing almost mo-
q mentarily dreaded and even expected, by
foreign missionaries, who from their po-
&bition on the field, are daily having pre-
II scented to them signs of q second strug-
L gle impending. Nj
q One OF tho best known OF the mission
1 aries, after a long service abroad, has
just returned to this country. She is a
native Of Virginia, and is now In this
city visiting her cousin She Will stay
In America for while and will then,
after about a year go back to her work.
Il IT is from her that the startling Informal
ton Of the danger of another uprising
comes, but she hesitates not to return
to her post.
MISS MOON HERE. 81.
For the past nine or ten years Miss
Lottie Moon, a native Of this State, who
has relatives in Richmond, has been
steadily at work among the Chinese,
and this is.iher first visit home In that
4 long time,. Size WONT out In 1878, and is
now one Of the, best known and most
highly esteemed OF the workers unuer
The Foreign Board OF the Southern Bup-
fist Convention, which has ks head
quarters here. She has been stationed al
treue Chowfu, in North China. AS stated
aboye Miss Moon Is now In Richmond
for a brief stay. She will remain here
,,ntjl Saturday, when she will go back to
4 crewe, where she is spending her time.
When seen yesterday, Miss Moon spoke
in a most interesting, manner or emma
the conditions existing there ana PROD.
lens before the people. BY FAR the most
interesting thing she said, however VAS
,n reference 10 the prospect for more
.rolble with the Boxers. In this respect
me told what she had seen and learned
il, china. and what the missionaries gem
sral,v believed Summed up IN WORD,
4 this belief is that time only Is nceded 70
+ eao China again in the throes OF f. great
rebellion.
THE SITUATION THERE.
AS stated by Miss Moon, the causes
leading UP to this state of affairs are
Z something like these. Since the pres
emit Emperor, Kwang Su' was -FOUR Eeals
ar age the Empress Dowager has welded
,,,e rod of mower in the Celestial En-
d nirc When he reached his eighteenth
rear the Empress. to the surprise ana
delight of all who praised her for her
h nn,ck percertion of her duty, stepped
ns,da md the young Emperor assumed
his rishtful place among his people. But
Ills views clashed with those OF MS mo-
ther, whose artful nature soon as
serted itself. dspeling the good impress,
sion she had made when she res'sheu
the reins of government,
The ascendancy of tho Emperor was
.hortliyed He was of q progressive ma
lure and he readily saw that what emma
needed was an infusion OF European ahc
Western IDEAS lie wanted railways
and other modern improvements ~ me
empire. The people. moreover. were be-
hind him, for. says Miss Moon, he Is
n fine Young man. The present Chinese
dynasty Is Monchu, and the present
Emperor is The first of this Monchu dy'
nasty who has won the regard of his
people.
but The Empress Dowaser ard ller
& nephew, Yung IIl, who eXerls n pow
& arful Influence over her and is in fact
a The virtual ruler OF China to-day wanted
no European Ideas in the land, and they
4 took quick steps TO checkmate the ar
dent young sovereign About two years
ago The Emperor ordered Ynng LII ic
"A he beheaded. He sent him lite greer
rod. which is the death warrant Of ans
C,hinaman. however high his station
Tsut kwang Su was betrayed by his
messenger, and Ynng Jm appealed Gtr
s. no doWager The latter at once wen
10 her SON., and with her piercing eye!
t,ncneeded as 1t were, IN hypnotzlng him
since then the Emperor has been unde
" the influence Of HIS mother, who rule
him completely. Yung l.u escaped pun
ishment ana Kwang su was imprisone
for . time himself by bis mother, ST.