Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-08
AWFUL CHINESE ToRTUREs.
Blood curdIins crueltes Practiced by
CeIestiaIs on Prisoners.

Blood Curdling Cruelties Practiced BY
CeIestiaIs on Prisoners.
Chinese military discipline is some
thing fierce. according to DR.. A. l.
Shelton, of Anthony. Kan, who has
just returned as a missionary from the
land of the pigtail The doctor tells
this blood-curdling story Of the cruel.
ty practiced upon a good friend of his
who was a major in the Chinese army
Three companies of Chinese SOL
diers under the majors command, but
stationed in distant city, rebelled
and deserted, taking their arms and
ammunition. AS the Chinese army Il
in the main made up of men who ac-
cept the service in place Of a penal
sentence, the most rigid rules are en-
forced heartlessly to get minimum OF
service and discipline. They are paid
the equivalent of $2.40 a month on
which they must subsist. To them
starvation is always imminent and a
dead dog or mule or other animal
even when dead of disease, is greed
lily cooked and eaten.
THE major was held responsible
for his rebellious troops, and only the
intercession of the commanding gen.
eral of the district, who got down on
his knees and begged for the life OF
his subordinate to the civil governor
saved his head.
THE punishment was modified to
6iSn0iScQl from q
light blows from small paddle. The
paddle used is from one to one and a
half inches wide, eighteen inches long
and probably the eighth Of an inch
thick. In administering it the thighs
are barred, and light, even blows are
struck on the thick flesh between the
hip and the knee, the victim lying
PROSTATE on his face. The paddle is
used with a sort of flip and for some
time makes no impression; 500 blows
makes the flesh red and puffy, 1900
brings the flesh to a jelly-like consist
ency, and 1000 mark the limit of
torture strong man may endure and
live
"Often gangrene sets in and the VIC
tim dies; with the best Of treatment 1t
is months before the man padded
can use his legs naturally In the case
of the major the flesh sloughed off his
thigh an inch and a half deep, five
inches broad and seventy inches long.
He expected to get well, but his legs
would always be crippled. The rebel
lious troops were pursued, 200 Of them
were killed in action and the balance
brought to camp for beheading. Eigh-
teen of the soldiers were given swords
and required to cut gashes in the flesh
of their captain who was unable to
prevent their rebellion, then they were
beheaded before the captain.
ITO stimulate other officers to great
er zeal in handling their men the cap
tain was then taken in hand by the
official eXecutioner who had bound
him to big stake for the men to cash
with swords. With a keen knife the
lips of the captain were sliced off, then
his nose, later his eyelids were cut off
and his eyeballs were exposed 10 the
pitileSs sun. After a few hours the
skin of the forehead was cut away
and allowed to drop over the blinded
eyes, hanging by the corner edges.
Then later the breasts were cut off,
all but the skin at the lower edge, and
allowed to hang: If the victim surviv-
ed that, and the captain did, then the
flesh covering the bowels was cut
away and allowed to hang apron fash
ion while the wind and sun dried and
flies and vermin fed upon the blood
and cut flesh. In this case the cap
tain, long unconscious, died with dis
emboweling: i'm cases where a man
survives that. then a knife is plunged
i'm his heart at the end of the day of
horrible torture. kansas Journal.