Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-11
BEG PARDON FOR
NOT ENDING LIVES
Chinese Women, Escaping
Slaughter, Apologize to Mis-
siOnaries Who Rescue Them.
NANKING GARRISON DOES
STUNT LIKE VICAR OF BRAY
Fourth Volume of Kaiser's
Toasts Appears-Praises
American Abstinence.

| object the punishment OF PreSluenC
Yuan Shi Kai, because of his al
legged unconstitutional methods of
government, saw very little actual
fighting.
There was much massacfing and
many executions, but the cases where
armed encounters amounted to any
thing more than skirmishing were
rare.
On the contrary the campaign was
conducted in the manner so often de-
Tended by the Chinese, that it is
cheaper and less bloody to buy over
hostile elements than to attempt to
defeat them with expensive ammu-
milton at a cost of many lives.
The military attaches who left the
| legations here at the outbreak of the
rebellion, are now returning to
Picking and bring the foregoing re-
suit of the observations. They wit
messed some interesting events in the
Yangtze Valley, but learned nothing
new or novel in the way of warfare.
The consensus of foreign opinion
in Peking is that the Chinese army
as fighting machine is only little
better than it was at the time of the
Japan-China war, and that 1t need
not be reckoned with seriously by
any potential invading force. Some
divisions of it, trained on modern
lines, drill as well as European ar
mics and follow recognized tactics
cleaned from TRANSACTIONS of German
military manuals. But they lack the
essentials of patriotism, discipline,
and the ability to shoot.
Other bodies of troops, especially
some of those employed by the South,
are only armed coolies attracted by
the promise of better wages for
carrying guns than they are able to
obtain by manual labor.
Thousands Trapped and Slain.
An appalling case of slaughter oc-
CURED at Sianfu, in Shensi province |
Here thousands of Manchus, vari- |
ously estimated from twelve to thirty, |
were caught in a trap and slain in |
cold blood or driven to suicide.
Missionaries who gave refuge to a |
few of the women who escaped say |
that these refugees apologized for not |
dying with their sisters, explaining |
that the wells were so full of bodies |
that they rose above the water.
There We're also numerous decapi-
tations and executions by shooting, |
in order to terrorize and thereby sub
due cities diSloyal to whichever side |
was uppermost in authority. But in
actual lighting there was in the anti
Manchu revolt only two or three en-
counters that could be dignifed by
the term of battle.
Not more than a few thousand
troops on either side were engaged at
any one time. 1t took very little kill
ing to persuade the mercenary SOL
diers to dispense or transfer their
allegiance.
Some of the troops that went over
to the rebels seem to have been pur-
chased with actual cash or promises |
of better conditions after Yuan Shin |
Kai was turned out of the presidency. |
The officers, of course, either sympa-
thized or had faith in the success of |
the enterprise.
Some, however, took the southern |
side as a result of coercion or went |
over with the majority without de-
muir. Then, in turn, they went |
promptly back to the northern side |
when the pressure from the govern-'
ment forces seemed to be the most |
dangerous.
Garrison Acts on 'Gnstinct."
The garrison of Marking gave re-
markable evidence of the prevailing |
instinct. Three or four times the ten |
thousand soldiers stationed there |
went over to the rebellion and back |
again to the government. Whichever |
side seemed to have the upper hand |
for a day would swing the majority |
of officers as well as men over with |
1t. 1t was very much like the cele- |
brated vicar of Bray in the sixteenth |
century, who turned Protestant and |
Catholic repeatedly, as each would |
come into power, thus never ceasing |
to be vicar of Bray.
Though a number of leaders of the |
revolt have taken refuge in Japan,
and although as an organization the |
movement to get rid of President |
Yuan has collapsed, the struggle con-
tinues in half a dozen provinces. Dur
ing the first part of the campaign,
when there was some uncertainty re-
garding the extent to which the army |
and navy would revolt. the govern
ment seemed willing enough to buy
back rebellious forts, arsenals and |
city garrisons; but later, when VIC
tory was assured, the northern COM
manders apparently received instruc-
tons to pay out no more money but |
to fight. Especially has this been the |
case at Marking, where the rebel |
troops stood out with remarkable |
bravery for the fulfillment of their |
monetary demands.
The fact that some of the armies |
employed by the government are led |
by generals whose records are those |
of freebooters is arousing particular
interest in Picking at the present |
moment.
One General Hsu is a brother of the |
notorious "Tiger Hsu," who, until he |
was killed by a dynamite bomb last |
May, defied the central government !
and maintained his army of several |
thousand men in the province OF |
Kiangsu as private bodyguard.
BERLIN, Duct. 1.-THE fourth |
volume of the speeches of Emperor
William. delivered during the years
1906 and 1912, has just appeared, it's
1926 pages crowded with addresses and
toasts on all kinds of subjects, sus-
tanning his reputation as the greatest
royal speech maker of the present
era
The collection contains many of the
epigrammatic utterances of momen-
tuous political declarations which
have from time to time created a stir
in Germany and in the world, such
as his declaration on woman's sphere
and divine right, at Kaenigsberg in
1910; his proclamation of himself. as
optimist and believer in his fellow
men; his contempt for pessimists;
hts repeated expression of his belief
in divine providence and his warning
against intemperance, delivered to
the students of the academy at Cas-
sell Among the most interesting
and characteristic passages in the
new collection are the following.
THE world belongs to the living
and the living know best. 1 will toll
crate no pessimists; whoever is not
ready to work may drop out, and, If
he wishes. hunt up country better
suited to him.
81 am an optimist through and
through l want to progress. r
should be delighted If people only
understood what l am trying to do
and would give me their support. We
are bound to consider every man hon