Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1900 — EMPRESS IS DEFIANT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

EMPRESS IS DEFIANT.

IMPERIALEDICT URGES REVENGE ON FOREIGNERS. „ i ■ Chinese Viceroys Ordered- to Avenge the Wrongs Done to Their CountryRoyal Court Fled for Fear Christian* "Would Kill the Emperor. The Dowager Empress of China defies the allied army of Europe. She will have no peace. She is for war and a war of vengeance. An ediet of detianse signed by the Empress at Tai-Yuan-Fu has appeared at Shanghai. I’n it the viceroys are exhorted to unite to avenge the wrongs of China. They are ordered to enroll troops in order to prosecute war upon the allies. The ■whole edict breathes defiance and undying hatred of the foreigners. It explains to the viceroys that

MOTH ’.n OF 1.1-nt’XC-CHAXO. Aged Relative of the Chinese Nobleman and Her Young Grandson.

the court tied from Pekin because it was feared that the Christians would kilt the Emperor. It is believed, the correspondents say, that the defiance of the Empress is inspired by Viceroy \ uat Tai Tuan Fu, in whose palace the court is established. He is the man who invited fifty foreigners to put themselves under his protection, and when they had done so slew them. Mission Ftat.oni Looted. According to Hongkong advices influentiHl natives state that the Same of rebellion has been fanned in the southern provinces, aud predict a tremendous con-

ilagration within a month. Placards ami pamphlet* are being circnhttvd in Canton and the provinces intimating that the allies arc thoroughly routed. The feeling against foreigners is bursting the bounds of official control. The majority of the mission station* in Kwang-Tung have been either destroyed or looted. Native Christians nre terribly abused. Natives in foreign employ in Canton have been threatened, and u sysleinalic looting lias taken plncc of the houses of Englishspeaking Chiiiziman. Hcvernl reform parties, with their headquarters in Hongkong, who have been supported by funds from Chinese in the interior and in Amvriea, have hitherto refrained from aggre-sive action, believing that the powers would effect the regeneration of the govermn.'r.t. tine powerful orgiiiucuition is distributing thousands of copies < f a reform appeal in the British colonies. The memcrandum has been signed by 200 names for pre-, sentatio.i to the British minister, imploring the assistance of a reform government. It recommends estnldisliing Nnnkin a* the capita! r.nd the selection of enlightened Chinese officials to administer the government. with foreign advisers. The people are disheartened at the reported intention of the powers to withdraw from Chinn. Different societies are combining to raise the standard of revolt and overthrow the corrupt government.

STREET AND CANAL IN SHANGHAI.