Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1900 — CHINA’S END IN SIGHT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CHINA’S END IN SIGHT

IMPRISONED EMPEROR INVITES FOREIGN PROTECTORATE. Such an Action Would Mean the Extinction of the Chinese EmpireBoxers Burn Christians Alive—American Marines Are Landed. Events have lately been moving at a rapid pace in China. With 4,000 Russians marching on Pekin and the small fqj-ees under the admirals, Americans joining, co-operating in this movement, it is evident, says a correspondent, that a crisis is at hand which may have big and unexpected results and denouements. Marines of the thirty-one ships of war

of all nations now in Chinese waters have a big job cut out for them if they undertake to protect all the foreigners in China. As a matter of fact they cannot do it, and Russia is the only country with the necessary military force on call that can effectively deal with the situa-

tion. Before Germany, France, England or America could send a sufficient military force to Pekin the missionaries and all other foreigners would probably share the fate of the Christians in Armenia five or six years ago. From Shanghai comes the report that the Emperor of China has appealed to the European powers for joint intervention in his behalf. He proposes that the foreign governments now represented by troops at Pekin release him from his palace prison, depose the empress dowager, declare a joint protectorate oven the country, disband the Chinese armies, substitute for them an army under foreign officers, provide gunboats for the rivers, and assume entire control of the customs, posts and telegraphs. If correct, this report means the end of China. Win n the Emperor of China invites the European powers, he invites the extinction of his empire. In 1044 there was rebellion in China, and the defeated party asked the Manchoos to enter tho empire. That request practically closed Mongolian rule, for the Manchoos, who went to Pekin to defend

the empire, remained to rule it. There have since besni rebellions in China that have carried the empire to the verge of anarchy, but the Manchoo dynasty has maintained itself. There have been insciTectkins that have devastated whole provinces, revolutions that have received the support of the Mongolians, anti-dy-nastic movements which have had the fanaticism and fury of the old crusades, and several anti-foreign outbreaks, all of which have been covertly encouraged by the Government, but never before has the Government or a representative of the Government invited the Western powers to assume control. In addition to the American marines landed at Pekin by direction of United States Minister Conger, the United States hospital shop Solace sailed from Manila, having on board 100 marines and five officers, Maj. Waller commanding, in response to the telegraphic request sent

from Tong-Ku by Rear Ad:ai ra 1 Kempff. Thirty other marines lett Manila on the United States gunb o a t Nashville, bound for TienTsin. The Navy Depar t m e n t at Washington has Ih-cu informed that the Monocaey has gone to Tien-Tsin

and the Yorktown to Che-Foo. A large body of Boxers have burned three American launches at Soo-Chow. A Pekin correspondent says: "The American mission buildings at TungChau, twelve milea from Pekin, which were abandoned by the missionaries, have l>een looted aud burned by the Chinese soldiery who were sent to protect them. Wjthin three days seventy-live native Christians, well-known men, who had been trained for years by American missionaries, have been massacred near Tung-Chau. Many of them were burned alive. The intimidation of Christians continues within Pekin itself. Most of the mission compounds' are closed, and the missionaries are being collected nnder the protection of the legation guards. News was received in New York City Wednesday of the murder of Dr. Edna (I. Terry, in charge of the station of the Methodist Episcopal Woman's Foreign Missionary Society at Tsung-llua. Edna Terry was born in Boston nnd wns appointed by the New England branch of the Methodist Missionary Society in 1877. Tsung-llua is six or seven miles north of the great wall and about 100 milea from Pekin. Vkll dispatches out of Pekin an* ccnsorcilW thr iiMerest of the Empress. The determination of the foreign ministers to increase the garrison at Pekin lead* to a belief in foreign circles in Tien-Tsin nnd Shanghai that the powers will never leave the Chinese capital, but will make China another Egypt. The chancellor of the Japanese legation nt Pekin, Hugiynma Akira, while proceeding alone nnd unprotected on official duties. was brutally murdered by soldiers of Tuug-Fub-Siang, the favorite bodyguard of the Empress, at Manlgate railroad station.

MINISTER CONGER.

DOWAGER EMPRESS OF CHINA.

ADMIRAL KEM[?]FF.