Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1900 — REVENGE IS THE CRY OF EUROPE. [ARTICLE]

REVENGE IS THE CRY OF EUROPE.

Fate of Foreigners in Pekin Stirs War Spirit iu England. "Revenge to-day. mourning to-morrow,’’ is practically the universal cry of Europe, but it is sorrowfully admitted that there can be no revenge to-day, nor, perhaps, for many ’to-morrows, for the incredible barbarities that are reported to have marked the last scenes within thq legations at Pekin. Nothing is clearer, a London dispatch says, than that the autiforeign conflagration is rapidly permeating even hitherto quiescent provinces, and the fate of the capital appears to threaten other towns like Ticn-Tsin, Chefoo and even Shanghai. The defeat of tlie allied forces at Tien-Tsiu seems to place that town in desperate straits, and if .retreat to Taku is necessitated observers consider that it will Ik* likely to decide the policy of wavering viceroys.