Mountain advocate., 1922-09-01

One OF tne MOST interesting
phases in the history Of all wars is
the coming TO light Of secret Incl
dents. necessarily excluded from the
public at the time, and often not
disclosed until long after the war
Is over One such incident was large
ly Instrumental in quellins the Box
er uprising in China against the citi
gems OF all foreign nations, resident
in China, at the time. The uprising
theoretically put China at war with
all the world, and soldiers we're
Sent to China from the most power
full nations of Europe. At first these
troops made slow progress, as they
we're loath to attack Cinnamon who
were innocent OF murders and other
outrages which we're committed by
that class of Cinnamon known as
Boxers who kept themselves concea-
led as much as possible. So 1t be-
came a game of sleuth work and de-
tective ability. At this stage a Pol
ish-German, DR.. Ludovisk Sennwicz,
who had been many years a resident
OF China and familiar with the pei
culiar Chinese psychological nature
or superstition as it may more pro-
perly be called, invented and appli-
ed the remarkable remedy which
put a stop to these secret murders
of unoffending foreigners by Chin
ese Boxers DR.. Sennwicz laid his
plan before one of the commanding
officers of foreign troops and OBJ
tained enough soldiers to carry out
his plan. which consisted in first
capturing few thousand well
known Boxers, cut of the mi'licns
oe them who were cecretly op 5erat-
ing against frrG'gntrs He thc1 ca'o
fully sought Gut cnd obtained the
peilgrees of these few Thousands
and especially the names and burial
places cf the dcce1sd fathers and
grAndfathcrs nf these captured
Boxers. He knew the custom of not |
only rev"ring Lut of octually war
Shipping deceased Il. cestorS, srd
that no matter how bad or depraved
Chinir an ray be. yet he ii Gays
prayed 10 his ar.t" 1-o and reId-f-
ed the lelsr d 'asIttt shown them
by him a heinous and unforgive-
able sin that would certainly con-
demn his soul to everlasting fire. !
The next step was to bring these
captured Boxers to the graves of /,
their respective ancestors and let |
each captive see his own father and !
grandfather dug from their graves ,
and the skeleton beaten to fine
bone dust with pestle mortar. This
bone dust was then used to make
tea, and each Mortified captive was
made to drink this tea made from
the powdered bones of his father
and grandfather, carefully mixed to-
gether and sweetened to taste,
according to the recipe of this Ger
man Polish psychologist who had
thought out this ingenious method
of bringing about peace with as
little loss of life as possible Each
captive's mouth had to be priced
open with dentists tools and the
tea poured in. 1t is said that several
of these hardened Chinese criminals
who could have borne any other sort
of torture as stoically and resigned
ly as a red Indian, absolutely lost
their minds, and all OF them were
thoroughly cowed and broken in
spirit. Not one of them was execut-
ed but turned loose to tell it abroad
throughout the Chinese Empire,
just like singed rats turned loose
to frighten other rats which are too
numerous to be captured, until all
the rats left the place. And so it
became known throughout the Chi l.