Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-05
China TO Steer
CLEAR OF WAR,
SAYS c. H. FEI
Recollection of Boxer Uprising
Revived With Arrival of
Visitor to Honolulu

There is not the slightest posi-.
| bility that China will become inyoly-
ed in the present European crisis. The
| empire is rapidly advancing under,
and the people appear entirely salts
fed with the policies of President
Yuan Shih-Kai. There have been no
rumors nor indications that China will
take a hand" @ ..* - -:
This statement was made by c. II,
Fei, graduate of Yale and Oberlin
universities and at present affiliated
with the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation of Picking, who is at the head
of a party of four Chinese students
who arrived in Honolulu on the Shin
yo Maru this morning, en- route to the
mainland where they will enter east
ern and Pacific coast colleges.
The personnel Of the party is T. NJ
Lee, who will enter Central College,
Iowa; Y. NJ. Chen, Butler College, In
diana; Peter T. Teen, University of
Illinois, and T. T. Chong, University
of California. Messrs Lee and Chen
are graduates of the Marking, China,
university; Mr.. Ten of Picking uni
yersity and Mr.. Chang of the Toxic,
Japan, university. while in college
in the United States they intend to
specialize in such subjects as agricul-
ture, forestry, mining and railway
engineering. Upon the completion of
their courses, they intend to return
to China and secure positions with the
government. :. .t-. pas
Mr.. Fei was graduated from Ober-
lin in 1906 and from Yale a year lat
er, he having taken a special course
in the latter institution. While at
Oberlin, he became personal friend
of Spencer Bowen, manager of the
local Associated Charities, who also
is graduate of that university. The
party was met at the steamer upon
arrival in this city by w. A. Bowen,
were taken by automobile to the Pail
and other points of interest in and
about Honolulu, and later made a
thorough inspection of the local Y NJ.
G.. A. building. Mr.. Fei is going To
the mainland for his health When
this morning, aside from
making statement regarding Ghina's
attitude toward the European situa.
ton, he said that Y. NJ. C. A. work
in the empire is rapidly coming to
the front and is doing remarkable
work along all lines sr
With the visit to Honolulu of Mr..
Fei there is awakened a recollection
of a certain period of the Boxer up.
rising which has an exceedingly local
atmosphere. At the, time of the. up |
rising, Mr.. Eel was but boy. He
was Interested in the work of the |
American missionaries in China. and
became personal friend of sister OF |
Percy M. Pond of this city, who, wfthd
her husband and children, were doing
mission work in the province of Shi-j
ansi Sensing the Boxer outbreak.
Mr.. Fei and friend were dispatcher
10 the coast with messages from 1
these missionaries, telling of their
peril After a hazardous trip, Mr.. I
Fei and his companion succeeded in
reaching Tientsin, where. the mes
sages were delivered into the hands 1
Of the American consul there. The
story goes that, in the interim, the
Boxers attacked the little mission set
.lement, Mr.. Ponds sister being the
,nly member Of her family to escape.
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