The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-30
OCEAN DEMONS
ARE IN DANGER
China on the Verge of Another
Boxer Uprising.
DEATH TO The FOREIGNERS
THREAT MADE THAT NONE
WILL ESCAPE NEXT TIME.


Victoria. B. G, Jan. 2s.-According to
advices received from North China.
fears are entertained that China is
planning another outburst similar to
that OF 1901. The North China Daily
News says
1t has been learned on good author
ity that Yung Lu, the real ruler Of
China. and the man who is reported to
be responsible for the murder of Pro
lessor Hubert James of the Pekin uni
versity, viii centraIize the command
of the military forces of the empire,
or at least the provinces north of the
angtse under himself and his bench
men, Yuan Shih Kai and Tung Flu
Hslang- The plot for the simultaneous
murder of foreigners in 1900 failed
owing to the unwillingness of so many
Yiceroys and governors to carry out the
order telegraphed to them. On the
next occasion the order is to be sent
10 the military officials, whose implicit
obedience may be relied on The max
i'm impressed on military officials is:
Super1ors can do no wrong" Sub
orulnates have no concern with the
morality of an order, nor with conse-
quences following obedience to it,
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 dec
laration as TO all friends of foreigners
in each group of ten families
from other. sources the pa per learns
that threats are being made in several
provinces against foreigners, such as,
Next time not one VIII escape" which
is current in, Shensi I'VE will not
q
and kansu," is the boast of Tung Flu
Hsiang, and THE friends of foreigners
VIII hereafter suffer for it,
The North China News, in a long ar
ricle headed, "A Word of Warming"
says:
1T is an anxious time for the dipIo-
matte body at Pekin. The strenuous
efforts of Yung- Tu to concentrate all
power in his own hands and those of
his henchmen; the dispositions that
Yuen Shin Kai is making of his we'll
drilled and well-arned troops round
the capital and at Shan Hal Kuan; the
energy with which arming and drilling,
especially of the Manchu troops at the
capital, is being pressed on; the ac-
tlTlty evident in the arSenals and DOW
der factories of the empire-these move
nlents are all compatible with the truth
of the alarming rumors that reach us
from the northwest. Are we yet walk
ing over treacherOuS ashes under which
the fires are still burning2"
The disturbances IN West Che Kiang
continue. The insurgents. who were
defeated by the troops sent against
them, rallied and cut up the regulars
SO badly that they retired to Yenchon
TO wait for achievements A thousand
imperial troops were sent, and the in
surgents took to the hills The inhab-
ltants of YenchOufu prefecture and dis
tricts nearby were pillaged, churches,
chapels and houses of converts being
burned. The flames could be seen for
miles and the roads leading to Sang
chou were dotted with thousands of
men, women and children of the better
classes, fleeing for refuge The in
surgents number 1000. and many were
joining their movement
kiang-nan arsenal has been working
night and day for some time turning
out quick-fring field pieces and noun
tain guns which are being hurried TO
the governor at Manning for use
against the Kwangsi rebels in the
south. The rebels continue to oppose
Governor Wong Chih CHAINS route to
Kweilin, the capital, which he has been
unable to reach. His troops are getting
mutinuous because of lack of pay.