The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-03-25
RUSSIAN ATROCITIES
laps viii Find Friends If They
Reach Manchuria.
CZAR'S PEOPLE TOO CRUEL
They Have Made Enemies of
the Residents.
Dieter to the Dayton Herald.)

Dieter TO the Dayton Herald.)
Peking. March 24.-If the Japs evel
cross the Manchurian railway into the
interior they will find millions of friends
awaiting them, for during her short but
bloody rule of this once peaceful territory
Russia turned the whole population
against her.
The following reports of Muscovite afro
cities in the province are taken from Off
| eial sources in the archives of the lega-
! tons in this capital. They are at the
same time common talk among Chinese
! statesmen and the great European ana
/ American merchants.
Russian soldiers being notoriously IN
derpaid and habtuaIly maltreated by their
superiors. it appears that, to make them
more contented with their lot and to
keep them in training for their real oc-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and slaughter-the
representatives of the Gar allowed the
troops to use the peaceful yellow men and
women they came to 'civilize" as it
pleased their ferocious nature Every sort
of license was granted against the Chin
csc during the last two or three years.
every conceivable outrage was winked at.
every degradation to which conquered
people We're put was condoned in advance
BY those in command, who tolerated ev-
erythng but murder direct.
OF the unheard-of outrages practiced
against the weaker sex by the Little
Fathers" s7lliery the majority is I'M
printable. but IS sample of what ac-
tualy did take place it may be permissa-
Bile 70 quote that 1t one time the Russian
authorities. learning that the troops
amused themselves driving women naked
through the streets. new order was is
sued, TO take effect that clothes must not
lie taken away from the inhabitants
What did the soldiers DO? They forced
the women and girls to go out with their
skirts upon their shoulders.
"Baptizing the heathens" is the popular
term for divers forms OF water cure in
Marchuria. Nude men ard women are
immersed. FIVE or six times in succession
to see whether the yellow heathen's skin
cannot be made white, "as il behOoves
a Christian" But this sort OF pleasantly
is INDUCED in winter. when holes are
cut into the ice 20 facilitate the 'soprt.'
The Manchgrian mayor Of little vi
lage near Muaden was nearly drowned
in his bed. Because he could not, or
would not. furnish a certain quantity of
whisky and them oney demanded. the
soldiers forced tumblers Of ice-cOld wa
ter down his throat He threw up some
OF it. whereupou they threw him upon
the aoor and assisted him" By tranpline-
on his stomach with their spurred and
hoh-naled boots.
\ stan officer from Vladivostok. on a
tour Of inspection. found the wells Of sew /
eral villages on the road Hlled with half I
drowned people. \ group OF soldiers pre- /
cediHs him played a 'joke" on the in
habiiants by hanging them under their .
arms in the wells. Many were immersed /
Up TO their necks
Further reports tell OF a heroic jap
woman. whose singular f7rtitude euraEed (
the soldiers TO such a pitch that they
subjected u her to Ions succession e 4
fortunes. The LADY. q weli-to-5o uer-
chants young and comely wife. first an
3erweut what is termed the tobacco and f.
sulphur torture. y quantity OF tobacco +
IS thrown on heap of ishted sulphur
he victim being enforced 10 endure the
deadly Civilizations Until all but stiied
Thrae times the woman was held over
bev aVors flye minutes each tine; vhsa
5he remained oh5u-ate. the leader CT The
BARD ordered that she - bound BY her
lair u The tai q horse. Next fire
= d-5ed branches was started outside.
around which the Cossacks formed a or
,ie. while his superior exhibited his horse
aansh;p By Jumping MS stced across and
through the IRE. dragging the woman BE-
lind.
\ rich inh2hitant % Nix Chwang Was
'arr;ed from his home by night and the
,srty arriving il the forest he was asked
o sign away MS fortune He rsfus. 81
nd the soldiers swo-e they would make
lin obey. They knew that their prisoner