| Show THE CHINESE TERROR The civilized world dreads to see every dispatch that comes from the Orient The fear has grown to be almost al-most a conviction that something so horrible has transpired In China that the whole world will be shocked All at once n nation that tho people have held to be but patient donkeys have developed devel-oped into tigers and they are more merciless than tho tigers of the Jungle Probably the story of what those people peo-ple suffered before they died will never be told but if it proves true that they held out eighteen days until one by onetime one-time guards and the Ministers and the families and the little children were all killed there will be an almost worldwide world-wide cry for vengeance The dispatches yesterday said that Japan would instantly In-stantly forward 20000 soldiers to China to begin the assault upon the serried front of that great empire Doubtless that army wH be Joined by a many Russians as many Germans as many English and as many Americans as can be swiftly gathered on thai shore and then they will have no easy task China Chi-na has 110000 trained soldiers and then the whole northeastern coast of China is seething with insurrection and a desire de-sire for murder I is a fearful sllua ton I Is one where victory must be obtained and where victory when obtained ob-tained will hold within itself more elements ele-ments of danger to the world than were ever seen before because only 0 little Impression will be made on the great empire and In the meantime the powers i pow-ers will have had a taste of blood And men are very much like wild beasts after af-ter all and never cease after they have had timat taste until they are satiated I Is the toughest problem that civilization civiliza-tion has been called upon to meet since the Goths and the Huns swept like locusts lo-custs over southern Europe or at cast since the weslrolllng wave of the Moslems I Mos-lems was slopped and turned back at Tiepanlo I |
