Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-12-11
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pass the orchids which cost ten times
as much. Mrs. Taft is more than de
lighted with the floral remembrances
from the Orient, and is having them
cared for in the White House conser
vatories.
The dispatches, semi official and
otherwise, received by the Chinese lie
CATION and our Administration offic
ials. show indisputably that the rev
olutionists all over China are making
greater Roadway against the imperial
soldiery and their Manchu officers
than the censored wires passed by
Yuan Shi Kai would indicate. But
stranger by far than the repeated vic
tories of the undisciplined rebels ov'
er the trained imperial troops, a fact
which American, and other foreigners
acquainted with the Chinese people
through long residence among them
view with undisquised wonder, is the
most remarkable circumstance of the
ability of the rebel leaders to control
the mob-the more remarkable be-
cause a Chinese mob. besides being
the worst in the world, is the most
easily stirred violence. It has
been aptly likened to pack of human
wolves, more devlishly cruel and saw
agely relentless than the animals
themselves It becomes a stark, raw
ing mad with the lust of blood and
plumber, and is utterly careless OF
life. Terrible indeed is the fate of the
man or wamon who falls into their
hands-too awful to think about,
much less to risk, and for that reason
no man who fought against the Box
ers in 1900 ever fired away his last
cartridge; he kept that for himself,
and if he was too badly wounded to
use it, comrade performed the chap
py despatch" that was a fact within
my own experience.
If the Chinese revolution turns out
success, and it's leaders succeed in
obtaining for that vast country a gov
eminent imbued with modern and lib
eral views, in which all classes of the
people, from the coolies to the aristo-
cratic litkrati share, it will be largely
due to the lavish donations Of hard
earned money, which Chinese merch'
ants, cooks, laundrymen and others OF
their race are regularly turning over
to the cause. It is estimated by those
who are in position to speak au-
on the matter, that over
ninety per cent of the Chinese In the
United States and Canada are doing
within their limited means
to secure the overthrow of the present
corrupt Manchu dynasty.
Dispatches Just arr we'd from Can
ton,, describing the conditions in that
rich and populous southern city, state
that the majority of the influential
rebel leaders are returned emigrants
from America and queless students
from Hanoi, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and
other places where they have learned
much about human Justice and human
liberty. They are receiving the active
and substantial sympathy of the we'll
to-do citizens of Canton and Hong
Kong. and also Of almost 80 per cent
If the total population of all the
southern provinces, as we'll as Macao.
Large sums of money are continually
pouring into the exchequer of the
'evolutionists from Manila, and the
Philippine Islands generally, the Ha-
vain islands, the Straits Settlements,
Japan and Australia.
Out of the twenty odd revolutionists
captured by Admiral Ii Chum, at the
Viceroy's Yamen, in Canton, near the
Tartar City, only two were returned
the others being students,
md one of the latter was the grand
ION of Lee Chez, the Poo Baw of
This youth was sent to
Hanoi at the instance of Mons. Chas.
the French consul, and was
me of the first to suffer decapitation,
! fate which all of his comrades
'hared, and against which none of
hem protested, although they de-
bounced in the court the corruption
md abominable injustice of the rul-
ng officials.
The dispatches also relate a grim
urprise which awaited Admiral Ii
Chun, after the decapitation. On re-
urning to his own yamen the lieut.
,nant and two non-commissioned off,
'ers of his secret service force de-
,artment informed him that very
many of the student class and quite u
arge number of the sons of wealthy
merchants and of some of the old-time
antilles were among the leading rebel
He demanded a list of
heir names, and when he was about
o order their immediate arrest he
to notice among them the
anne of his own son. Boiling over
nth wrath over this unexpected and
lost unpleasant discovery, he order
d his subordinate to drag his son be-
ore him for punishment. When the
I'd appeared, Admiral Lii passionattly
him fired two balls from
is revolver into the boys breast,
1juring him seriously. The daugter-
l-law on hearing the shots rushed
pom the admiral, wrested the weapon
ON his grasp and shot him in the
zee and body, then she turned and
mptied the last bullet into her side.
dmiral Lii was only slightly wound