The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-04-18
GENERAL MILES WRITES ON The
yellow PERIL" OF THE PAST

compelled the emperor of China to treat
for peace
a princess of China, 5000 horses, 500
youths and as many virgins, and tribute
OF gold and silver were the price of the
withdrawal of Jenghiz's force from the Ce-
lestal empire.
In a second expedition Picking was be-
sleged, the inhabitants were compelled by
famine to devour their fellow citizens. and
the five northern provinces of China were
added to his empire.
1t was the wish of Jenghiz to establish
friendly commercial intercourse with the
most powerful of the Moslem princes. Ma
homed, Shah of Khuarezem. far to the
west and his ambassadors were kindly re-
ceived
In all probability the Mongol armies
would not have appeared in Europe had
it not been for the unfortunate putting to
death of a party of Jenghiz traders in
! the territory of the shah Satisfaction fol
their death was demanded by an embassy
of the great shah but Mahomed beheaded
| the chief envoy and sent the others back.
shorn of their boards
Jenghiz promptly put his mighty army in
motion and in the vast ssplans north of
the JaXartes two hosts leach larger than
was ever led or faced by Napoleon) con-
tested for mastery until the curtain or
night fell on the scene, where more men
by far laid on the field than fell at Gettys
burg.
Mahomed then withdrew and distributed
his troops in the frontier towns, trusting
that the barbariaDs, inIincible in the field.
would be repulsea by the length and diff
Guilty of so many sieges.
But Jenghiz had formed a body of Chi
nese engineers, schooled in mechanical arts.
No power withstood his arms. They swept
over the country north of the Black sea.
captured Moscow and Kief. and a number
of years later burned Cracow, pursuing
their devastation over both Poland and
Hungary.
Their victories were frightful massacres.
1t was their custom to cut off an ear of
each of the slaughtered enemy. and it is
said that at Ligneitz, where their advance
was stopped by the German. under Henry
the Pious, these trophies filled nine sacks
After this battle the Mongol hosts re-
tired from Europe. They attacked Bag
dad, which they took by storm. They de
stroyed the dynasty of the Abassids.
marched into Syria, stormed Alepp. and
captured Damascus.
Jenghiz himself died in 1927. while on
his march to complete the conquest OF
China, which was continued by his son and
completed by his grandson, Kublai. A
descendant of his, Tamerlane, who died in
1905, duplicated the career of conquest of
Jenghiz, and more than repeated, if posi-
BILE, his terrible devastation.
His military career began in his twelfth
year, In his twenty-ffth year, after won
derfu vicissitudes, he stood forth as the
deliverer of his country.
At the age of "a he was invested with
imperial command in kingdom 500 miles
in length and width. At his death he had
placed q crowns upon his head, and had
led in IS campaigns
Samarcand was his capital, and he had
Travelled with his armies from Mongolia
in the east to Moscow in the west. from
the land of the midnight sun in the north
to Arabia and India in the south. ..
At one time a garrison Of 1000 Armeni-
ans were buried alive for their brave
and faithful discharge of their duty to
stoutly defend at another he erected on
the ruins of Bagdad pyramid of 10000
heads, according to his custom"
And yet he once said in a conference
with Syrian savants, 81 am not man of
blood; and God is my witness, that in
all my wars, ] have never been the ar-
gressor, and that my enemies have always
been the authors Of their own calamity"
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