| Show CHINAS S VERY UGLY SITUATION Murder and Pillage Between SPITTING BABES BAUES ON O LANCES ilu o r bin Lutter II of 01 lord ner New York May In latest mat troll from China nuy a 1 Washington to tt the thc has bas brought to the new If proofs of ot the perhaps Irretrievable conditions which exist under the foreign military rule In north China Involving a tl situa situation tion not hitherto rt tullY fully realized ever even everIn evenIn In Washington and utterly unappreciated In III the tho United generally The character of ot the tho Information which has now como come Into the administrations possession In III summarized In tn tho fol tol following lowing extracts from a 1 communication tion by one of ot the most trusted In the service abroad anti and mailed from a month URO ugo The question of ot raising tho Indemnity ty one of ot the tho most mORt serious for forthe the tho Chinese Is not para paramount mount All the people who are uro likely to know declare that the thc Chinese peas I cnn can stand no greater grenter burden of or taxation than in the thc past so se the tho lilies resolves Itself largely to reducing the expense of ot collection which In China Chinn Involves radical reforms Another prop position for tor meeting the Indemnity la Is lato Isto to grant Irant mining millIng and Indus Industrial trial to foreigners but that means bartering their Independence and laying Up endless trouble for the ulio are ar quick to recognize the fact fu Jf H the whole horror of the murder pillage done between Tien flen and comes to bi he In tho United In J the sum or It In Is so great an compared to the number of or who willi have ba a suf suffered ut nt the hands of ot the that thaI rightly or 01 wrongly the Chinos Chinese ore are likely to be Le held the th Injured party wantonly Impaling little chil children dren dran by liy wayside In III tho streets of at are Homo of or the l of ot the well authenticated horrors and to for tOI foreign eign a 1 dead ad Chinese Christian Is III Just ju t ns 1111 an evidence of or no as a dead deac they neither know nor cure eUle for such trilling dl l The allies even If IC they the could agree could not set et up nn administrative ma of their u n for tOI the tho empire They Ihy must mut restore the tho power to some I native party and the ll quicker they do o It the better far or China Chinn The ChI Chinese esti estimate mate that on million of or their people have lost lives by violent I or starvation about t Tien l ln tho allies came Well In Informed formed f long hero here do 10 not regard re the estimate te as ns exaggerated The North China Chinn News Nw of ot March 28 8 endeavoring to tIll tell why lh such a 1 us 8 the one alleged can 1111 exist says sas Simply Chinese civil authority ty has been suppressed harried driven en Ill away and nothing substituted for tor forIt It The country between the sea and alii has been devastated and the peo people leo leolIe lIe have hn been heen killed Indiscriminately or out of their homes home to become We have thought that one of ot the acts of tho foreign ad administration ministration after was waR relieved would have he been to strengthen the Chines e civil authority and make It responsible for tor the preservation of ot or order order der Hut lut what magistrate can be ex expected expected to remain nt at Ills hili post exert himself to put down opposition to for Cor foreigners eigners elgner when at nt any moment a n for tor foreign eign lieutenant with n handful of ot troops may come to him and demand a 1 sum of oC money on In pain of ot having Viti his town or village burned down In case cuse of ot re rc refusal CHINA THE filE POWERS London Jondon In 6 I am nm Informed by bya byn a n high native saya the Shang Shanu Shanghai hai hul correspondent of oC the tho Times that China has approached the powers lowers RUg sug suggesting RUgg gesting g a complete completo opening of Man Manchuria an churia to the enterprise of nil all countries and that replies have been received from Japan the tho United States and Grent Japan cordially approves the DUg aus The United States govern government ment generally assents but It suggests an application of the principle to tho whole empire Great Grent approves It 1 II that Russia will object The chamber of at commerce and the British American associations are nr vigorously protesting the proposed Increase of or the customs tar tariff iff to 10 per cent IN MANCHURIA St Petersburg May C iThe The Invalid publisher details detail of at the recent operations In Manchuria It that the North Manchuria division dl under Gen fought over twenty engagements losing altogether twenty tour men killed and seven seen officers ot cerp wounded two died of their A quantity 1 II lit of or guns junR and rilles were captured The total result of ot the operations Is that of ot three bands which at nt the of the year car were menacing the pence peace of or Manchuria two have been annihilated according to the nuuk Invalid and the third after sustaining n number of ot defeats squadron U Is now being pursued by the Hussion I |
