| Show WAit I 1 I People sometimes wonder why In war wartime time military censorshIp of the press nearly always I Is II so 10 strict a as to ex elude from Crom general genral knowledge all but till the news on which I Is stamped the of tidal ma may be printed SO eo familIar to and readers In the dark as ages when hen popular en was much dreaded by rut ns irs or of hut Dut the lit letter In the London Globe from a gentleman throws throw sufficient light on that point It shows wh why war lords are Anxious to ha have e some ot of the scenes enacted enate In the dark sad aDl It if completely hidden from human view Tile The correspondent of oC the OI be tra traveled lied to the Chine ell capital pita I partly along a rout where lately the flue nUl elan tor e have operated ostensibly fur for the of putting down the Chinese rebellion What he saw and heard on Ih the nur river lell him to the conclusIon lon that rio no Ie less than 2000 per saris IMIn wre dell deliberately lIttly drowned it at Ii a place call called 1 2600 oo more mON till dl the same way at Babe Habe And 8 around AntI And among these vIctIms ot of civIlIzation were a great groat number numbe of woo vo mn men antI and children Th The corpses hosting In the river made exceedingly slow Blow And the banks were In Ilac pisces literally covered with dead ded The correspondent pay that l before fore the t ot of hostilities th the river hank between anti 1111 we were studded with wilh vIllages con oon tuning a thrifty UnItt anti amI IndustrIous pop 1101 population Now ow there Is not It a village left Itt Io o one will ever eer know Ih the num number number ber ot of people that perished b by tI tIe gun n sword end imi river Th The village of WAI waa but a ma of cracking ruine The described b by the writer In Glob alo remind on most forcibly of the rn most 1 barbarous wars wall of history But Hul such II hi war NotwithstandIng alt all the laudable e efforts ort tit lit restrIcting the demons ot of withIn the l boundaries drawn by a humane they nUll are demons revelIng In blood death eath and destruction And I this the ease aM when raw ed ad pt peoples are given the and told to us It to theIr heart hearte content It should hould be noted that while the for tor elg n envoys Itt at Pekin were wre talking I all this carnage arna wu was committed un on the banks or Df the Amur river and that without t 1 formal declaration ot of I war r Ju Just t now lOW tho those e enYo eno have agreed I n certain terms as a bull basis of further and among th these I ade acle mend mand that more mOIe blood be Ih shed u aa a punishment for tor th the outrages commit committed ted the foreigners but It would that In the matter ot of killing the Chinese account ts II more than balanced by the proceedings or of the 0 or Rome come of them It the Chin Chinese as 81 asis I is probable object to the wholesale e cx of Ih their lr princes and noblemen the Ian can afford to be moderate In th their lr demands demanda on that point in III vIew or at thE manarI that hIVe have taken pure After aU H th point Is II to take measures whereby similar occurrences ma may lit be In the future I |
