Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-26
BOXER REBELLION
IN CHINA RECALLED
Missionaries, Object of At
tacks IT Years Ago, Not
Singled Out Now.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 26 Ext ension
Of the anti-foreign campaign by the
Chinese Nationalists to the point of
actually firing upon and killing Amer
leans at Marking yesterday recalls the
horrors of the Boxer Rebellion OF "a
years ago. In that affair more than
200 defenseless men. women and chill
dren. among the Americans and Brit
ish alone. were killed.
AS in the case Of the present move
ment. the Boxers We're animated by in
tense nationalism, although they vent
ed their hatred of foreigners princi-
pally against the missionaries. There
has been no indication thus far in the
Cantonese campaign, however, that
missionaries are being singled out for
violence.
1t was in May. 1900, that a num-
Der of Christian villages near Picking
were destroyed and the native con-
verts nassacred. Then came the muir
der of two English missionaries and
the blaze which had been smouldering
broke forth in an orgy of looting,
destruction and killings.
Detachment Sent to Picking.
Bands of Boxers overran the coun-
try. The railway between Peking and
Tientsin, the line connecting the CAPT
tai with the coast, was cut and the
stations burned. The foreign powers,
while almost unprepared. dispatched
a mixed body of marines and blue
Jackets--1S officers and 3S9 men in
all-and these reached the capital be-
fore the railway was cut.
Peking was in a state of anarchy,
with murder a daily occurrence. The
reactionary Prince Tuan, grandson of
the Emperor TaoKwang: the Manchus
generally and the Dowager Empress
sided with the Boxers.
After the first interruption of com.
mumcations, nearly six weeks elapsed
before definite news Of the situation
in the capital reached the outside
world, except for few belated mes
sages, sent by Chinese couriers, ap-
pealing for quick relief
For the greater part of that period
the foreign quarter. defended by
volunteers and the little naval force,
was subjected TO heavy rifle and artil-
iery fire The section held chiefly
by the Americans and Germans bore
the brunt of the Chinese attack.
Attempt Relief of Capital.
mixed force of 1000 naval and
military forces. including Americans,
out from Tientsin in desperate effort
to relieve the capital, only to be
forced back with heavy losses. The
British contingent of 9l5 men alone
lost ia in killed or wounded
While this column was making it's
futile but gallant attempt, the Chinese
launched determined attack on
Tien-Tsin. The foreign admirals seized
the Taku forts at the mouth of the
Pei River TO assure communication
with the sea. Then they stormed and
captured the native quarter, but at
the cost of 700 in killed or wounded
One of those killed was Col. f. II.
Lipscum, commander of the American
contingent
1t was not until August that a suffi-
cient force was gathered in Tien-Tsin
TO warrant another effort to lift the
siege of Picking. Then 5000 men cut
their way through the Chinese hordes.
The city fell on August IA, the EN-
peror and Empress fleeing soon after
the foreign troops entered.
Find Picking a SHAMELESS.
Peking was'a shambIes Large sec.
lions had been laid waste during the
months of fighting and the foreign
residents were in desperate straits.
Aside from the wholesale destruction
Of foreign property the wealthiest
part of the native city was in ashes.
The imperial court, after one or two
halts in it's flight, settled at Stangfu,
an ancient capital 500 miles southwest
of Picking, and under IT'S instructions
Chinese plenipotentiaries accepted the
demands of the powers
These demands included punish
ments "befitting their crimes of those
named as participants in the uprising:
indemnities to states, societies and ip-
dlViduals; maintenance of permanent
legation guards in Picking; fertilization
Of the diplomatic quarter; guarantee
of open-rail communication with the
sea and issuance of an imperial edict
making viceroys, governors and tho
provincial officials responsible for anti
foreign outbreaks within their 'juris-
dictions.