| Show I CHINA AND TUE C6INES J Wo Drive the Foreign Devils Out From letters that arc finding their J way Into the English and colonial newspapers news-papers It Is clear that intelligent observers ob-servers In the Orient have foreseen the gathering trouble for foreigners In China for many months I appears that the Emprc Dowager has become l possessed with the notion that the white powers dread her army which has been trained by European oncers She has also been deceived as to the courage of the white nations by the failure of the French Italian German and British authorities to mulsh the violation of their rights and territory In China and on her borders Infringement of treaty rights with Impunity has encouraged the Empress Downgor In the belief that the t tim has come when she can drive the foreign devils Into the sea A natlvp correspondent corre-spondent wrltlnpTlir life North China Herald oC May Itjth move than six weeks ago thus anticipates the present i fcuthroak I write in all spriousrfrss and sincerity sin-cerity to inform you tli it there Is i a great secret scheme having for its aim to crush all foreigners In China and vrost buckUie territory leased to them The chief leaders Of I this mop mont are the Empress Dowager Prince Ching Prince Tuan the heirapparcnts father Klang Yl Chno Shu Chiao and LI PlngIIeng The forces to be used to achieve this end are all Manchus 0 S The Boxers arc tob counted upon as auxiliaries to the great fight that is more Imminent than foreigners in Peking or elsewhere dream The same correspond giv > ls an account ac-count of a suggestive Interview between be-tween the Empress Dowager and a censor named Wang 3 native of the province of ChlhH Censors are a body oOofficiala stationed at Peking known as the eyes an2 earn of the i Emperor They are chafpr with tin duty of Inspecting the affairs of the empire and advising censuring officials cials even the Emperor himself The Empress Dowager asked Wang what he thought of the Boxers and whether when the time came for acton ac-ton they would join her troops Infighting In-fighting the foreign devils Wangs reply which in the light of subsequent 1 events is noteworthy was as follovs I am certain of i your Majesty Moreover the tenets taught the members mem-bers of the sOciety are Protest to the death the heavenly dynasty and death to the devils For your servants own i part so deeply do I believe in the destiny des-tiny of the society to crush the devils that young and old pf your servants family are now practicing the incantations incanta-tions of the Boxers Naturally the Empress Dowager i was pleased with this assurance of the devotion devo-tion of the Boxers to her dynasty and in order that they might not rashly anticipate the trouble she was contemplating contem-plating for the YangKueltze foreign devils she appointed this censor Wang Governor of Pelting to guide their conduct I Is clear from this corespondence jmd more like It that all that has happened hap-pened in China since May IGth is only I 1 part of a deeplylaid and longcher shed move to crush the foreign devJsThe Empress Dowager has let l loose a furious fanaticism that Is likely to devastate the empire before the white powers can get in motion the fores capable of reducing both the Boxers and her army to submission She has Ighted a torch that may well cost not only Chna but the world dear before Herald it Is quenched Chicago Times < |
