El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-23
WHEN THE KAISER
STRAFED CHINA
Interesting Memories of the
Boxer Expedition; In
Struction to the Army.

". ". Campbell Of Mount Hamilton
Observatory in California relates in
the san Francisco Chronicle the fol-
lowing account of how the kaiser dec
grated his gardens with stolen as
Economical instruments from the walls
Of Pekin and how he undertook 10
make the Chinese hate him and his
people:
-Knowlege Of the German kaiser's
conduct in a certain matter has
ranked in the minds OF astronomers
throughout the world for the last Is
years; and now that Germany has
driven Us into war. the time has come
TO give the facts wide publicity as pos
sible
When the soldiers OF many coun-
tries were in China putting down the
boxer rebellion in 1900. there was much
OF the city OF Pekin was an observs-
tory containing wonderful astronOm-
ic2i instruments These had been de
signed and constructed in. France, and
taken to Pel1in several hundred years
ago by Jesuit fathers
The instruments consisted OF globes.
srmillary spheres. astrolabes and very
large circles accurately divided for
measurement Of angles in the sky. all
CT heroic size, cast in massive bronze.
Taken From Wall
There instruments were dismounted
from the Pekin wall by officers Of
the European armies and shipped 10
Europe after the boxer rebellion was
over Five Of these instruments Went
TO Germany and few went 10 other
continental governments
The other governments would not
receive this pillaged property; they
sent il back to Pekin. where the in
struments were remounted on their
old foundations
Did the German government send
their share Of the loot back 10 Pekino
No Were these five instruments placed
N the museum Of Berlin No
Foundations were built for them Oh
the lawn in front OF the kaiser's palace
1t Potsdam. and the Chinese instru-
those foundations. I saw them there
IN 1905.
what would we think Of ourselves
and OF our country II those instruments
had been brought 70 america ana were
mounted on the white house grounds II
Washington Could president wilson
sleep with the loot on his lawn Inc
sentiment. The king can DO no wrons.
still exists in unexpected places in Ger
many Some Of the German astrono-
mers have sent me Christmas greetings
on postal cards illustrated with photo-
granhs of those Chinese Instruments
millions Of our best citizens are or
German descent and all Of US have
German friends whom we admire and
respect, but it is important 10 realize
what manner Of king and what manner
of government the people Of the United
states have as their present Prussian'
rather than German. enemies
Let US not forget the ksiseTs
speech TO his army officers in Hamburg
the evening before they started off tc
Pekin. substantially as follows;
Give No Quarter.
~'Give no quarter. take no prs
oners: cut to the right and TO the LEFT
so that for q thousand years to come
no Cinnamon will dare look askance
at a German That was the treatment
prescribed by a powerful monarch To-
a defenceless people
LET US not forget still a third item
in the history OF China, country
whose policies are so strongly admired
by the peace-at-any-prfc apostles
Two living German missionaries II
Germany had no value in the eyes o.
their government but the same two
missionaries, dead in China were 20
valuable to the German government
that the harbor Of kiao-Chau and the
Shantung province must
be taken from helpless China TO bal
ance the account
ct is of the utmost importance that
No man or woman in this country he
fooled by the honeyed words which
keep coming TO US from Germany-'Ne
have no quarrel with America and We
shall ignore her declaration that
state o. war exists
Nothing would suit the German gov
enment better than inactivity on our
part while the Teuton and Turkish
bowers are trying to thrash the entente
8 HES"