| Show i TUB OP TILH OH TUnY liter ii Ie now but little room for doubt se II to the situation In China The Th rumors ef r the murder of at the tG It at have been by br as 1 It IL ItHema seems Hema reliable dispatch And ad the fanaticism appear pp rs to be aviv oer the northern ne lii fire iii In dry The fury of the th moll inoa not with Uti thu blood of the foreIgners Ia 11 raging the native naun too and are Bre probably slain Tho e familiar with Chin cornU condi tiene state that the mint In Pekin lisa lIas never bun extinct among the ma ot of the people That Ute the ministers and amid other were not long ago was wa due to Lb rr fear by the government and the vIgilance of at the Yemen or the board It this ii 18 so 0 the thu Is accounted for by byth byth th overthrow ot or the government antI and the ascendance to power or of the TItan Tuan who a short time ago Will ia mad the or of the The Th coup that seem emi to lIa have taken place was wa the signal lInal to the mob to unsheathe their knives They would havo done so long ago aeo but buttor for tor liar or of the severest punishment by their own on government The awful Is rendered Ir if more lamentable br the tact fact that nl as near as o can be judged from the Japan was In a to render caBal The victims VIctim held the at baT for ren eighteen days This Is 18 believed to have been ample tim time for tor a 8 army to reich reach Pekin tr rio I Japan but but the 01 seem to have hl offard to go to the only on certAin conditions which the of the ether would net permit them to accept While th the diplomats anxious bit leat one aile power obtain an advantage over moth another the tho meaning St er wore were Quibbling about of terms such auch II ae joint R and d con oon currant time was ost and the crime or of the he century In Inthe Inthe the entire or of the world there Is II not another instance or of the diplomatic corps thus being abandoned by tilt the powers th 10 Its own tate fate But Dut oven even when this ii I conceded the tact fact remaIns that the crime committed by the Chin demand summary pun There can be no hesitation now Germany has given key k note to the o concert The flags of the dent must supplant the ensign or of the dragon on the walls wails or of and term or of pence must be dictated When the people and humiliated humiliated realize tile the enormity of thu out i rap rae commuted committed I Unfortunately the United States tee can cannot cannot not an attitude of oC Inactivity In Though we are sir In no noay noway way ay In th schemes ot of other powers power we e are ant In duty bound bounel to maintain the honor bonor of the flaK flag and protect the lives or of our citizens Ir if It were wre compatible with our national dignIty to tAl 11 give up the open door policy for tor the Ut sake ake or of avoiding and hug alliances no consideration would justify us In by the murder of 1 our to a foreign coun country try In the present case CAli American rein ansi ba hayS been and probably tortured at hi I Ute the TeC very of the im portal place ce t fliey ty e fOund shelter and against the mob That II Ia an act to be tolerated only by n a GOward or a weakling Thi Ib massacre can mean hut but on one thing tile the or of the Chinese ChineN em pin tre Th The cri crisis t Is 18 at hAd habel Probably good 10 will corn corne as a or of the th ell for tor over all rul tulie th the Power loer which hleb the destiny or of tb the world In with its It own plans and The latest from bal give news new ot of a more cheerful They allege that h were w stIll eun on th 3rd of title thIs month It ItI I Ii I to be hoped that hits ii Ia true tm and that the besieged foreigner may mar be 14 able to hold bold out until relief non reach reh them |
