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Show I AWAKENING Not since the Boxer uprising has I the quiet old city of Peking been so I aroused as at present, with one Chi- I nesc army in defense and another ap proaching BBBBlfi If fill II I At the lime of the Boxer disturb- I ence, foreigners in Peking were hem I med in and America, Great Britain, Germany, Japan and other nations found it necessary to send a joint expedition ex-pedition to rescue their nations. It -was at the inception of this movement j that Emperor William, addressing the ' troops about to sail for China, in 1 etructed them to act like the Huns of old in order to fill the Chinese with dread of the name of German. ji Again there are signs of a foreign I army proceeding from Tientsin to af- J! lord protection to the diplomatic I corps. Dispatches, telling of the fighting In I progress twelve miles southwest of Peking, report heavy artillery fire and Twenty ih-- Boxers knew almost nothing of mod rn warfare. This c hange is notice that China Is learning the use of heavj guns and Is training in the things of war This may be the awakening of the giant. It China becomes a nation of light ers, using trained forces and high ex plosives, and indulging in poison gases and aerial .bombs, and If China and Japan co operate to Impress the world with the slogan, "Asia first." and. if to those forces are added the Russians and Cirmans, dark clouds will roll up lroin the Pacific to worry the people of the I'nited States. |