| Show 1111 ah Oli l lAKe IH seems lI to 10 be an n Im la In that the tbt Chinese over or meet le bout about to open negotiations with Lb the foreign ow through members of the Tseng II Yamen who according lb to advises from Muster COli Conget hart h returned to Pekin At the b same mil time Il h s II Preach aban ot of rumo Tumors of IU I In the capital elt city have roc reached bed It Petersburg and d that tb the allied forces O OhI hI helve lost loat 11 III ho duel dead sad 4 wounded These rv remora possibly t In are unfounded still BUn tilt they suggest t tilt that there I is no gen general n eral III ha Chinas peacefUl la Is It II b to Understand how bow the b present Chines root w IN dlan n tingled b by means of negotiations Wr Were China a power with Western rn standards of truth and honesty there would be some common ground to met meet on But Bu Bub she b s I not attn Chinas Id ideas fit of truth are u as I different frail ours as la I the out cui of clothes cloth In v vogue In III that country Her diplomat hats ban tb the rt reputation of ex X cluing I In lying for tor their country ThI sophistry I U bold to Aad yet they Lb are ItI horrified at t th be redo nee D that such ucb U as to t their standards U they an so more Mort guilty nt of telling what ts II not true than tbD are our diplomats when they speak of spheres of Influence and lId ot of boundary 1111 lino all OH of which Are modern terms lum tar tor the annexation of territory I The lite l length to which Chinese diplo nao can call ro go In III the employment ot of It b In III the following of the treatment ot of foreign forella In China on aD a former oe 01 casaba The Ill paragraph I le from the IAtt DI OtI T II m the beads of the Chinen Ile 1510 were the Frenchmen Col t o Captain C Ader and tId Ouy Duluc and the tt de d dM do dow de Of M w seer m Lieutenant Danl Colonel Colonl oriel W Walter An Anderson leron The Tho l Bowley B wl and nd Me lemm Loeb I sad Parka The Chinese ChIDO were e Informed that tat negotiations could Guld not W Ull the prisoners were given up Prince Kong said yet but It was a Chinese yes which means no nomore nomore more Ilan a Chin no lie He repeated the old n the Ibe prisoners were wre wen well they would be released when peace aeo had bad been their presence wu was needed In 1111 Peking U as bot hostages The larch NIl of the allies was continued The CM then Uaen sell Int back baek five of tile the One onEs W M de tamed med to 10 have grown WI ah a head smaller lie He w was dressed In n au an ole old Chinese Womans skirt His HI tortured han hands had assumed an 8 shape H He had bd beep fettered with ropes which blI when b he complained W were writ to make them shrink and thus thul eat eal deeper Into his hll flesh V Yet while he hewa was wa tb this treated Prince Kong had written A as follows fullow to tn lIron Haron Oro Gros I have hae the tho honor to inform You tb that t I 1 ha have van ord orders that thaI Jot H d shall hall 0 treated with the greatest rob eon and respect A few fOw da days later the tit test of tb the prisoners w were re returned turned Wrt We are bringing them th m tb they are re AU all It here pleasantly l U cried the who walked In front ut of tit the vehicle Then wa was a wile wild jumble of rott and eI tin Ion In It Chinas probity demanded that Ihl the chI eMhe Ir II on of nf those who bo bohlI hid hn hears tortured to 10 death should be When at t thus Ihu the fed WI sea can call them wilful fal false falsehoods hoo hoods but a Cb scholar such a aU as asU U Hung eon ft prove from the classa of lit hl that a man mutt mut be eo considered well 11 U as lOll long a athe as the ts II H He can call pro prove that thai a prisoner oner even If H tortured art ts treated It the greatest considers Lion Sad 4 II as Ion long I as tb the tor torture lure ture I h applied with willi due poUt J A mandarin will deny that tie he killed blued a prisoner If for instance b be let left him tn In sterns t to death Much are arf Chi Chinee bl nee ideals Ideal of truth lit In lIch auth sophistry Chinese dl How cia cap cian n the and Orient Orteal settle NU their dl dlf f by mea mesas of agreements hl h b by br party It If not b by both art are t Into Inlo oal only to tie brok broken act about there s I no comma us oI u to meaning e i t II tab did not U liberate II the tore tr ere ie Pekin It teak I an army to open II lt rot for then will not ot u th the Chine ChIAnti Im It the tee ern frets coil u upon on to foes foHl a solution now f It II Must do ed by Itt Its physical nI elute oleo allO N be the view Iw of the different vrn Then I s Nall talk 1111 customs of the country In order r to secure the if the that I Is to lit be paid At the th Same la lime Ime 1 there are 11 signs that tilt lb and Ju Judo do see are about to h help themselves t tel ter is II parts ot of the country Whit What China end nd what ha tb the world needs In C S I Is a Ita stable bit boa eat In tooth with lit the tm tarn I iI 0 of na nations That at this object could beat bett be gained bg Ute the 0 of the racially province Into hato state appear probable If Meat wo world give a pew tt to as life Ia the vast It the aid di ones ter I os M that t 1 W the wall IN an a u ron enl to Ie such an arrant ment I le all an another other They The are Ste In China for tor annexation and not fur tur tb the tI ot of permanent governments But In all tb the Villi states Me hIM Sell lilt t to guard In III that part of be globe lob and thou I Is should be in II the hr fee development ot of the leis floes |
