The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-28
ERCILESS BUTCHERY OF ORIENTALS BY ORIENTAL
Horrors of Ruthless Massacres of Chinese Savage War
fare of the Survival of the Fittest-Unspeakable
Crueties as Likely To-day as Centuries Ago


the women who had accompanied us;
they stripped them of their wet APP
parel and made them stand up stark
naked before us all The seamstress
was called in and told to measure them
for fresh clothes. The women were
too much afraid Of the soldiers to at
tempt to hide their nakedness with
their hands. When they had all been
dressed in new clothes they were sup
piled with meat and drink, and the
soldiers began making love tc them.
Most of them yielded readily enough to
the solicitations of their captors.
Next one of the Manchus began
brandishng his sword and shouted:
Come here. you Chinese savages.'
They then bound all of Us who were
in the front row with cords. including
my eldest brother. My second brother
called out to me: IT'S all up with us:
what's the use of talking% He seized
my hand and led me forward; my
younger brother followed. We were
bound. some fifty of us in all, and the
Manchus led us out into the courtyard.
yelling like savages. Then the butch
cry began. Every one was struck dumb
with terror, and stood there and
| watched it for few moments, await
L
to death calmly enough. but suddenly
l felt as II aid had been vouchsa fed
to me from some supernatural power
Bound as | was, I managed to creep
| away unnoticed. and reached one OF
the back rooms of the house. where
| freed myself from my bonds | found
| that i was in the women's quarters,
where there We're still some Of the
older women who had been unable to
| escape
There was a corner in this gate
house behind a very high cupboard
| into which | managed to climb. As I
waited. scarcely daring TO breathe,
| heard an agonized voice which recog-
| nized all too well, the voice of my
younger brother begging for mercy. A
sound of blows followed, and then l
heard my second eldest brother cry:
| L have money buried in my cellar at
| home. Let me go and | will bring II
to you! After that all was silence and
my heart seemed to cease beating.
| felt as IL my brain were on fire: the
tears refused To we'll from my eyes
and my bowels We're rent asunder. Ny
tongue Glove to my mouth, and | think
| l lost consciousness.
my own position was now one Of
extreme peril. Selling the first oppor-
tunty. l managed to climb from the
| cupboard. which was open at the top.
! onto the crossbeam of the loft above.
1t was as black as pitch there; and
every now and then soldiers passing by
would look in and prod the loft mating
above their heads with their long
| spears. Hearing no sound they con-
cluded 1t was empty. l lay up there
| oil haf 1ax Ittrt ,,y hat TINA nh
score Of persons were Ourdered in the
| room beneath me Out in the street l
could hear sounds of horsemen riding
by. with shrleking women In their
train. There was no rain that day, but
| the sky was overcast.
| AS the day drew to Its close there
| were fewer soldiers about, but the wall
| ing Of homeless refugees served l., re-
| mind me of my two brothers pitlful
deaths. I wondered IL my wife and
son still lived, and II so where they
might be hiding. AS the night fell /
crept down from my, loft and went out
into the street. The road was full Of
| people crouching in attitudes f despair.
| some STOPPING over corpses and calling
them by name. Seeing torches moving
toward me I hurriedly made down a
side lane toward the city wall. Here
the piles OF corpses made progress dlt'i-
| cult and | stumbled over them again
and again. 1t took me three hours
from 8 o'clock to II, to reach my eldest
| brothers house. He with my wife and
child were there before me: | could not
bear to tell them OF the death OF our two
brothers.
Little Pengrh slept on the top of the
coffin right through that terrible day
and never stirred but once. when
wetted his lips with water which
brought in a hollow tile from the ditch
outside. As evening came on Mrs
Hung came again, and with her We re-
turned to the room in which we had
passed the night. She told me that my
sister-in-law had been carried Off to-
gether with my little nephew. an infant
in arms. We counted them both for
dead, which made four deaths in my
family in two days.
II tried to procure a little rice. but
without success. My brother and
my wife attempted suicide but each
time Mrs. Hung prevented her.
"After this I made for a neighbor's
house and implored him tn let us take
shelter there. He said he had no room
My wife again begged to commit sui.
eide, and as | felt there was no longer
any hope I agreed; so We proceeded
to hang ourselves with one rope to the
rafter. But the moose had been clum-
silly adjusted and we both fell with a
crash to the ground. More soldiers en-