Show p THE CHINESE J w WOLF hu o Tn r nn AND THE EUROPEAN r LAM I rn ier r this title Ule tte Mr lr E J a 8 n who td the front from Toku Taku to lekin k i the Janal a ot f the loot lier tr fr it n a hart art of nt the J a In I Is responsible T I From p rOn hae been the e reports Sat and f conduct of f r but hut this l Is the tho most an ani the it the y t male ot of this aspect Ce t In tire I te Tim lire facts constitute k a un mm r that the of f the tho thoa We shah tin I Iii detail present them sose Some tn this end and the of f the following U Mr Ir Dion Dillon II e of f atrocity With his rip the h I Iho 1 dee after afler oter CIrou tAn a e th Ears J f 7 j T by time the o JL lc If nl at II TaKu i I a I ho CU iii It bear wit II ors t the tl te tel n U dramas or of blood bloo IH U ha banks b by 1 lan many a tie e C I Ss that o of tho th le to tel tell a a grue rue I 5 of oC the fole I It or r In to days I r aDd ar on that foul toul tle p d loser ban Iban r L s by aB i I more m J 4 I a I saw aw In 1 Its I ti 1 bank Is I I The limit T Moi tiny day da r T rn I w I IS W toWed t b by a r latHI Cr r tilh th 1 it I list hat had imad once been m f but Lut now high t p 41 ng fl rUbbish Here lg 1 go u dor remained ne it r u 1 mn smi I Witnesses to tou I tre he runy amr ded Which had dw mt f Wh tag had the tho aPpear I I ilI I luse m my curios I I 11 Ihre and amid to n 1 It I e e within Le e let X eft In rona one room an n aM two Stools rOI lay It It man Who Should have hac Ie roe C tUcu er slashed lay 11 f at theIr feet feet In the tho courtyard was a I little child Its ls hair done up In four tour plaits Interwoven with wih red ribbon Us Its ls head crusted with black clotted blood and shrouded by h I n a of ut flies flics Ies Nor this by ly b any Iny means time the only on I scene of ot Its Is kind A wave WIe of ot death and desolation has bias hal swept over the time math land washing away Iwa tho time ves ses vestiges es estl tl s of Chinese culture Men women boys bors girls and habes In arms arnis had been heen shot stabbed nat ald hewn to hits bits In this labyrinth of lt streets str etl and IW on nn both banks of or the time river reigned the time peace heave descrIbed de by Tacitus The Tho bats alone flitted about In II the he dusky air and amid un ungainly ungainly gainly carrion birds circled around I IU 11 with Wih funeral clang of at wings All Al time the boats oats with supplies for the tito th troops which were dragged ed up tIme the river wore were towed towel by it h coolies After fer time the Ins acre of or the tite O of ot Taku coolies did dil not Slack Hock eagerly or In num numbers hers bers bI to lo the European I employers So the lImo Europeans went scent out Into the high highways ways ant and anti anI drove before them every eor able and man I whom they tact met let them thom to servo serve ns fl H coolies coole anti and the thc most ex ox exhausting protracted mm ad dangerous work that can Cn well cl be 10 Ima Imagined Imagined Ined The Tue boats were mostly heavIly freighted ll tire the stream abounds In shallow low loss zigzags and amid In strong Itron currents the time banks are ore so 0 high that the tho human have sometimes to trude e In II mud mUll up UI to their waIsts or to tf walk alk for hours hour In II pestiferous I ferous U The work wa WI nil ni the lie themore more arduous that there ther wets were not enough coolies to each boat bOlt no so that a afew afe atess few tess fe men inca had to perform the task tack of many an One Omme very er heavy hel barge bage was WM dragged lt by five l two tWI of uC whom ought to have hap been beon In n it 1 school anti and ni II one In nn an asylum for tor the old 0 ant al Infirm The ages agel of the men muon mel pressed Into the ferIC varied from seven to seventy ent With Wih n a blue rag rg round their loins joins or quite naked and al unashamed they the waded for tor hum In tho lie river or 01 floundered about In the mud the tho fierce rays of the sun Bun playing upon their bare bae backs on which the soldiers hind Imd hl often oten left lef blue welts wel or roth red raw rn W wounds 11 Their woes oes wore were countless cunte s They The w re continually In Iii tl danger of drowning for ninny many of them item could not swim assim a 1 stroke They The were over ever er getting cut or hurt If I disabled 4 they wore were cre left lett stranded In a swamp or ora oro ora a o heap heup of where whee they tIme the were r put to death by the boxers for the time help hell they had hum d the t ire Invader er erThe The streets and amid houses of cities were wre nit also the scenes of harrow harrowIng harrowing Ing tn tragedies calculated to sear seam mini and sear scar the memory memol even el of the time average aern man who Is Ii not glen to sickly senti sentimentality sentimentality mentality In Iii Il war sear they would have havo unseen passed ed unnoticed In time tm of pence heart ho hul were definitely over orl they ought to have been stopped by b drastic mess meaR ores ures If It mill mild means had hud proved Ineffectual I speak ns as lS an B when I say for example that over oer and anti over again this the gutters of the city of ot ran red 1 with wih Hood blood 1 and ant I sometimes found It Impossible to o ant fould go o my way WI without getting my 1 boots looI bespattered terel with wih human gore ION There Thero were few tew shops private houses mind and houSs court courtyards yards without Mad bodies pools of ot dark blood Amid Amic a native tae population whose very tery pry souls coul quaked with lh fear at lt sight eIght of ot n a I rIfle 1110 military uni form a I reign of ot ml red r terror was WIS for which there seems no ado ade adequate quate motive mothe To the ito state of things that prevailed in lii cities cHips Is l difficult for or who have not witnessed Its dire chico dir and grotesque ue ef rt teeth fact Any ny foreigner however lowly or brutal had but to go out Into the time Streets unc anti say la to ny any nn Come Com or merely to beckon to him hll I and find he lie 11 Then Flit Th n he ivan was ordered Inhered to toto do 10 to any kind of If rough ork r It I might have lmae been beon a crime If I the tho temporary wore wor so 80 the tho th unwilling slave obeyed If It he lie lagged 11 he ho could lx In struck kicked or wounded ne I If f disobedient shot shot I saw sass e a n very e will wi Ing worKer near being kicked kl ke Mack ant blue by I n a I soldier be Louise falling to grasp time the thi meaning of or his gestures he tilt did not start IId oc off ff In 1 hot of at a n horse or mule that had wandered off otT of nn on hour before One could coul read rad painful eagerness to tl divine ant and obey oly jn In n the time usually face of tho the native nal on blind passion stol In the features of if his tormentor These hese are er but hut a I few te pam para graphs from Mr Ir Dillons story sto That which to be TI b told toM touches touche upon even mor ITon foul toul aspects of ot tho the actions Ulon of M I I time the European In InI j I China DISCLOSURES What In la heavens helenl name IHle Is this I exclaimed one day da thumping with wih my knuckles el a very VIt big black box bux In iii the th tb housa of o a Lt l rich man who may In lila have hae been blen In 11 Abrahams bosom or In Dives company Tire The house was Wil In lii the time somber In ono one of the time largest laret rooms moths arid and a I torturing stench proceeded from frol It I It I Is IH the time girls sir three thre girls answered my IY attendant aten ont who was us a I European l Their rimeir corpses are lying Iring In the box there ho lie Who ho put Pitt thorn thor there Some Hole offIcers Are you quite sure of It I Yes YC em sir I was Wil hero here hel when It I was Wil being done doimo one LId Did Dil you see lee tho the young oung women tur 1 I did dil They The wore were time tho daughter of If the time man who owns the time house The Time raped rolled them tnt thien n hall hal them Ihor stabbed sta bed with wih bayonets When thy they were dead lloc they tile were ivere put Into title this box hux and Ind It I was WIS cov covered CO I ered ore up UI as ItS you ou f eO Good 1001 God what i a 1 dismal te of ot things wo see WI are nr conic come cometo I to That sort of f thing happened be tore fame sit sir Ir Very cr ery too I cnn can toil tell tel you There hoN were worse eases cases 1109 than thin Thew here were raped nn stabbed others otherl have been be n raped to death and stabbing got sot no It I Is true that the lie characteristic traits of this thi International campaign 1 n eo so 10 fur far furns IiI ns os have felt III Its I effects have been hicen bloodshed r and anti rape Fe Fi Females I males of nil all 01 11 have hse been abused to death fhe The circumstantial tales ales told of the tue dishonoring ot f wives hel girls chill chil children dren ulten In lu are such Ruch ns as Oi should In normal l beings eings IJ ln 1 kIndle some IOle sparks ot of f indignation with without wih out the old aid Ild of ff sickly Irk sentimentality Surely one tn needs rl not MI to be Puritanical or hysterical to condemn the wholesale ravishing sometimes to death of tern lied fled f females between the time ages III of ot six Ix and antI by hr clodhopping brutish sol pal who misrepresent alike Christian Christianity ity I and civilisation I 1 knew well wll a n mm maim whoso Whose wife hail had boon been b n dealt with wih In this manner anti then Killed along with her child I know of others whose wives and daughters hanged themselves them on trees or cm drowned themselves In garden I wells wels in lii order to escape a much luch worse lot Chinese women wonton honestly honesty believed that no more terrible fate tato could coul over overtake overtake I take thorn thor than to fall alive Into time the hands of and Christians lt Europeans J Christans And It Is I to be e feared tel red that they the wore were right Buddhism m III have hae their martyrs to chastity whose heroic fonts feats no will swill wl ever record Sonic Some of those thole obscure girls and amid ald women hurled themselves Into the tho river utah and mindIng finding only three feet teet of water seater wlter thre Item their heads under time the sur stIr surface face until ull death deuth had set let Its Is seal enl on time the sacrifice of their life JI This Timis Thil suicidal frenzy was catching It I sometimes spread like hIke Ikc anti and time the tie military 1 1 authorities felt fel bound to stop It by h fore force A number of ot soldiers with wih some of the time criminals them were seers s sent nt to time the and amid they tile succeeded in Jim saving the lives I of or many Hut lut n a large number lumler of or Ill 1 started starred women fell fel alive Into the bands of ot time the allied I I I ell troops I souse saw SW conic ome fome of ot them In Pekin and but al ah already ready rea y dead with lIh frightful ash ashes s In Inthe inthe the breasts or with skulls smashed sma hel In II hel is 18 a ii woman missionary In Iii who busied herself to my 1 knowledge for tor months In shielding Chinese se women and ant girl giri from trum being heln raped by Christian Christan and tUmi European l soldiers anti and 1111 tire tho work was anything but easy tIP Even lsen In the time broad brOd daylight Ilen hung about the time refuge amid inn employed various devices and tricks to get gel et hold hail of at the time women they ought to hue have been leen the to pro Iro protect eeL tet tetI It I will 1 be hI a R source coue of not nt little Slit sat satisfaction t to read at the end eni nIl of nf the story of If this pham of the brutality mani manifested feto by b the allied alId that no imo 10 or soldiers of or Ger f nationalities have hlll Ilm of or these f abominations against dt Il Ic el women wOlen limit Hut we uc must add ald that there is la little to choose between time the actions artons of the tire different nationalities so tar far as looting Is II concerned and long after oter life and property were scene ere theoretical Iy b I protected crimes against women ant and the despoiling of private property con can to be he perpetrated with wih little fear tear of discovery dl cor by b the authorities Concluding his arraignment of at th the conduct of ot at nt least a large portion porton of ot the foreign soldiery Mr Mn Ir Dillon Dion says ss It I would be silly 11 to blame only or oreen oven een mainly the tire troops trips f fr r all al th e abominations Greed lust which often He lie le In germ for a 1 lifetime suddenly grow gross when gru rt tim IMI till tl uprooting Is Impossible And Ant nd In armies annl time can con become No N t i wonder then lien that the th lie allied 1111 troops tint not satisfied with what they the tho hat had pillaged d In the Chi Chinel hi new nel quarters of tire tho cities elt sometimes looted the lie houses of ot European rest dents carried every portable article away 1 tint and wantonly destroyed de troed what they the could not carry Pianos were de with wih bayonets bayonet mirrors shiv shivered shivered hl ered cred In a hundred fragments fr cut Into IntI strips This Thin was I done tune by b Eu Europeans In Iii the time house of the time whom they the hall had been un sent Bent to protect Mere Iere had little grounds for tor complaint after thi d Ion ton became a 0 passion Ps fon In many litany man I wit witnessed I 11 mans of Its Is elementary manifestations talons with 1 h psychological Interest I IS sass S soldiers enter an ll apartment stock stocked stok stoke ed e with wih fill 11 their with cuis saucers cream ewers ewer eI and timings things of o moderate i else lw aid ard ail then take to smashing the valuable hi bi hiT big T I talked with seith some come nf of them In Inthe inthe the hope hopp of o understanding the working of their mind but their reasoning 11 era ems erl were pre temporarily disordered and there was waa no what form tor their next outbreak of passion might take lake For Far these things the time governments of or the powers mire are alone to blame They The Th refuse to treat China as a a chilies civilised I sUite state and Ind this refusal Is II at tot lt the root rt of ot Chinas present and their future cal calamities cl amities aIlt The policy 11 of o the powers Is 11 a ii rowing cowIn of ot the time wind anti and the tue harvest hal t td will wi surely be bt the whirlwind But nut that belongs to the mJ lr pf the future |