| Show Till rm Ill IX l I Whon tho the tory story of tho the doings of oC civi civilized ciVI soldiers In China ChInn shall beSa told In lit all nil It details It will bo be charac characterized torI zed justly jus I as n tho tile of oC the cen veil century tury And Amid An It should bo be told toll without ef of effort fort tort nt ot n concealment nt It t should be lie Iv Ivon on en to the world In nil all Its lis hideous details for COI UI It allows that war Is war var and can cin cannot i inot not Hot lj I conducted on civilized civilised principles i bliss ples It Conns ins the tho strongest possible I argument In III favor of ot n a permanent peace I tribunal General Chaffee e hap hag laid bare Lare some acute of ot the atrocities committed In the tIle name of oC civilization lIe He says rays that thai Pekin WI given over oer to Iq t almost unrestrained l rat rab bory bury for tor three weeks after tho time capture Just think of what n a band batul of ot looters amounting to thousands can cnn in III three week In lit a city elt If not tu to strained by law In I It Is III easily believed that anything 1111 a n might have was seized including vegetables eggs ggs chickens sheep shoop IIII clOd cattle nut Hut this Is 18 l not all nil Murder MunIer wan waa ram Chaffee Is in reported to have null that one wa tan slain iaIn fifty 11 harmless ss coolies tend and farm labor laborers ers ore and many marty man women and children were vero killed The soldiers argued that since there thero Wore were ote numerous Boxers Hoxer aln ng the tit population sonic some would al aI always ways be done one away with wild when i t sum suit dent cleat number of ot natives were massa massacred cred crt From other eye eyo witnesses of the te hor horrors rUff rare In China It Is known that one Russian general misunderstanding or orders orders ders from front headquarters It Is charitably explained drove or lr COCO Chinese Clinese men women and children into the Amur Arnul river whore where they perished It would be In ill vain to search the annals of ot modern history for tor any nn ait more appal appalling appalling ling atrocities Civilization while on this expedition of ot vengeance simply donned donnell barbarism and Herod Some time nil all nh these things will be b Impartially judged and adjusted lie He Is sure to follow tollow Our aliI boasted civilization will be b convicted by Its own works at nt home and abroad Other civilizations have havo fallen tallen anti and become burled In the dust of ot ages Just because of oC their failure to lo ennoble mankind They Tho have beep been bee a cast away when hen found toun to 10 be bc empty shells without a n kernel l Will not itt history repeat Itself Surely Burely for Cor there Is an nn overruling power that directs all nil the tho various events toward one great rent end |
