The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-10-04
SUN PREDICTED
BOXER TROUBLE
Announced That It Was Coming
Others in Honolulu Had
Advance Warnings.

of interviews with those conversant
with the situation in the Flowery King
dom. DIR. Sun Yet, the famous revolu-
tionary leader, in a very frank talk
with The Advertiser some few weeks
ago, stated that ne had every reason
to believe that the Boxer trouble, on
much larger scale than before, would
reeonmence.
When the cabled news of the rice
riots in Chang Sha, where some mis-
sionaries were killed, reached Homo.
lulu, Doctor sun, who was then passing
as Japanese under the name of Kono,
Slipped quietly away on the Mongolia
for the Orient Even his fellow coun-
| trymen in this city did not suspect
that he had left the Territory, but were
under the impression that he was on
Maui. When he heard of the Chinese
uprising he started down to the water
front with few friends who saw him
safely ensconced on the Claudine bound
for Maui. A little further down the
harbor the Mongolia was locked and
his friends backs had hardly been
turned before he was safely on board
the big liner prepared to go to the
seat of revolutionary activities in the
celestial kingdom.
Some time previous to his departure,
| Doctor Sun intimated that the attacks
upon foreigners in China, as instanced
in the Chang Sha riots, were supported
by the Chinese government. He ex-
peeted another Boxer uprising of far
greater proportions than the one in
1900, and this one, he predicted, would
be backed by the Manchu dynasty with
all the power of its great standing
army of thirty-six divisions. He claim
ed that the government was rapidly un-
folding its vast military plan, and that
when it became powerful and the rulers
believed they could depend upon the
great armed force, that the time for
another Boxer uprising would be ripe.
But the Chang Sha riot, so Doctor
Sun avrred, was premature, and was a
riot which, although part of the flu
ture plan of the dynasty, was in reality
almost an independent uprising. 1t
lacked the backing of the imperial con-
spirators only because it was little
premature.
~ still assert that there will be
an uprising in China, directed toward
foreigners, which will be far more ter
rible than the uprising of ten years
ago. asserted Doctor Sun. Even
the uprising of this year (the rice
riots) were directed toward foreigners,
and even we of the revolutionist party
were aimed at for thirty of our std
dents were killed. Some time ago sew
eral of them were burned to death.
We, who are of the progressive element,
have been included in the attacks as
well as the foreigners, and this indi-
Gates to me that this is only an initial
movement in Boxer uprising.
"The new Chinese army, organized
under Manchu authorization, is to com
prise thirty-six divisions, each division
to be composed of 10000 infantry, with
cavalry and artillery bringing up the
total to $4,000 men. Two divisions OF
10000 men will comprise an army
corps. The army will comprise about
a million men under arms, standing
and reserve"
Missionaries Expect It.
That the foreigners in China have
been for some time expecting trouble
such as is indicated by the cable from
Washington, has been commented upon
recently by missionaries passing
through Honolulu.
Friends of the missionaries at Chang
Sha, in central China, have but jus
recently heard that the feeling against
foreigners in the interior has beer
very hostile. At Chang Sha, las
spring, the American missionaries suf
fered much from the bitter hatred Of
the natives who at that time placed
the blame for the rice famine to the
foreigners.
According to the latest advices il
Honolulu from Chang Sha, the mission
/ aries of some denominations had jus
r returned after their flight of severa
months ago, when most of their homes
and possessions had been destroyed
? Missionaries from the States, ordered
for duty in central China, have ex
pressed themselves, when passing
through Honolulu, of the grave cond'
ton of affairs in some parts of China
whenever the mob and rabble fancS
wrongs are due to the presence %
white people, who are still regarded
with much suspicion and hatred.
The FIRST Boxer Rising.
, In the Boxer uprising in 1900, NOR
r than two hundred missionaries los
| their lives at the hands of the anti
! foreign league. The full details Of
their deaths and of the fortunes whicl
they suffered before they were allowed
r to die will never be known; but tbs
3 story of their constaney and courage
has shown that there are as many
heroes among the men of the blael
coat as among those who wear th'
helmet and brass buttons.
The last stand of Pithn, of Pao-tinl
Flu, will 60 down in history as one %
the most gallant defenses ever mad
against hopeless odds.
With Pitkin at the Pao.ting Flu mis-
sion were two ladies, Miss Gould ant
Miss Morrill, From the north eam'
the news Of the long.expeeted Boxe
outbreak, and the story Of tho mas
saere on massacre OF Americans ans
Europeans Escape TO the coast wal
cut of, and, Knowing that only a fep
hours would elapse before they, too
would suffer similar fate, the three
missionaries gathered their convert
about them and tola them 20 seek safe
~ IN flight Then they spent the nigh
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