Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-21
Chapter XVIII.
The Yellow Terror.

This was the very question "hien Sch'i
Hardy. with his sure eye for the main TACT
among ten thousand, asked himself
IF the shepherd chance to perish
At all events 1t was the shepherd with
which he personally had to do. Between
him and Yen How was the tug of war; and
he knew it.
So a week after the battle in the channel.
as he lay among his pillows. almost as white
as they, he called old Bobbie to him ana
said:
robbie do you know anything about
British regiments and the dress they wear!
mot much. I'm afraid, Master john an
swered Robbie.
We'll. then. you Will flnd Out, please, aua
as soon as possible-today. ! want to know
what regiment II is whose pr1vates
wear" and he frowned in an effort of
recollection-"wear a scarlet uniform with
white facings. and have somewhere about
them Prince of Wales plume and coro-
net Yes that is it. Please find out; and
whether they are still in existence, and all
about them.
In his eyes now was perpetual wonder and
reproach. The color and taste of the world
were changed to him; some one had med
died with his hearts delight; Hardy had
come back but the dazed old fellow could
not find him.
Hardy was now recovering from an at
tack of asthma which had brought him near
to DEATH When he opened his eyes to re-
The Chinese were in Europe
He put out his thin hand and languidly
lifted a Times. and he saw the words. The
Yellow Terror" and his hand fell helDlessly,
and presently he lifted the paper again, and
he glanced at another place, and saw the
words-"1t is this scream of the Chinese
which seems to inspire their victims with
some indefinable new species of terror,
never before and his hand fell again.
But already by the next morning, he
could sit up in bed to drink his cordial, and
then he began to study the weeks events.
His vitality was in reality intense and tough,
and the thread by which he chung to life a
strong one. He set to work to gather facts,
and he could work stoutly.
While the pile of papers was about him
old Bobbie hobbled into the chamber.
This. l think. Master John Is the name
of the regiment you want" said the old
man, handing slip of paper.
On the paper was written:
THE Duke of Cambridge's Own middle
sex RegimenO. Regimental Dist: No. 81
Hounslow.
We'll. Bobbie. and what about them?"
asked Hardy.
THE depot of the regiment Is Hounslow,
Master John; and their late history is this:
The first line battalion was in India at the
beginning of the year. and the second line
battalion was drafted from South Africa to
join them month after the commencement
of the war. Both of these, as far as known
have been destroyed in Russia. The Sd and
4th (militia) Battalions have been fighting
in existence. except for some few now in
hospital at Chelsea. sir
And have you found out the names of
those?'
mo. Master John"
Then do so at once
He went on reading. The details had
about them a certain Indebtedness and
they were not voluminous; but he was
quickly able to determine that the Chinese
avalanche pouring in four main streams.
The 800 Chinese who had come to St
petersburg seemed poor and were to
be sent back to their own country were
not Chinese at all, but Japanese: and be-
fore they could be sent back they had
mysteriously scattered, and disappeared in
the general mass of Europeans. They were
intended to report to Yen How when the
moment had come for him, personally, to
move forward toward Europe
The Jehu of that wild four-horse chariot
still sat far back in his seat, the rens
taut In his hands. The four-fold van of
his army was upon Europe while its rear.
was still upon Picking. 1t stretched across
the world.
mountains which, like the ramparts of the
New Jerusalem, have locked in the cees-
tial empire from contact or knowledge,
suspicion, of the vague world beyond, they
came. The Dead sea lake, after old ages,
was amove, aglow. Through that mystic
rious land, which the race-venom of the
Mongol race has made a third unknown
pole in the midst Of the earth, crawled the
weird procession, the unbounded caravan.
The wild elephant and the mild-eyed zebu
saw them with wonder, and the summer
monsoon went gadding with the marvellous
tidings toward the plain, and over the
to Africa, gGsSiping that there above,
the high fiat land, was a New Thing NOV
ing under the sun. The sources of the
Me-kong, the Saluen and the Irrawady,
which only the eye of the couchant tigress
and of the yellow man had seen, beheld
their week-long passage and heard the
creak of the cart and the cry of the camel
and the muling of child at the breast
They heard also the sudden scream with
which the Chinese laughed
Never was so sloven and pell-mell an
army; never so struggling and numbering
and clumsy an array; but never a power
more eager and more certain to reach its
goal.
The Friant division of the French army.
going from Presburg to Austeritz, once
marched forty-five miles day for two
consecutive days. But never a day which
did not see this far-spread host sixteen
leagues farther toward its aim. They could
not be called infantry, though millions,
foot; for the armored carts which Yen
How had provisioned, the presence of
which spread out the host from continent
to continent, Were the chief means of loco
motion. and continually changed their oc-
cupants. There was, moreover, no care for
life; If man was Iii. if he dropped out
of the march like bird from the flight, he
was left perish or to return
The length of all the units of q single
army corps III column of route was SO un-
like anything. with which we are familiar
that the figures are incapable of conveying
any idea of its vastness. If the eorps@could
have marched on single road it's length
would have been 1.2o0 miles, that Is to say,
the length of three Englands; and the
tire corps would have taken thirteen days
10 pass given point.
This inconceivable worm of humanity
contained among Its two millions of indi-
viduals women incapable of walking
thousand yards, children born since the
march began, old men, boys and girls of
ten.
Each of these pilgrimaging masses OF
men was in itself a nation, such as those
of which Caesar writes only probably far
vaster. It's members came, nearly all from
the same province, spoke the same dialect,
had been impeied forward by the same set
of Influences, had been drilled by the same
captains. Only its officers were, in the
main, japanese; and into the rank and file
of each corps had also been drafted thirty
thousand Japanese, all men
At the time when the five hundred scat
tered at St. Petersburg. and Yen How, I'M
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