IN THE PURPLE EAST.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7143, 6 July 1901, Page 8

IN THE PURPLE EAST.

♦ ATff AUSISAIiIABnS TEEBIELE JJ^BBSL Oil Chi* w HlfajntaitMßß J IXHSCDOS, M»y 2 *> D* TifaA^ ft* Pekin eascspandest o: the "TSmta," • aid3 to4bs> jemtn»l» kt-ei descriptive of the- methods of ti» danstiaa Weal in the Barbarous Eoak His is a sickening indicfcmotb ol Western civilisation, and fiome of *h» psusages in tiie story he tells would give even Abdul the tJcapeakabte a good answer to tit* Concert. It te good te find that the British, troops are exonerated from any share in these atrooifcie*, though it seems that pillag". was universal even Christian ladies and Qbjstotian missionaries joimng in the carci-, va) of covetoufflMSß. The dark picture wWdbDr Morrison paints of the desolation of Pekin reads like a chapter of Gib It almost suggests that the Ohineat O&ght to get an todemnity from Europe injrtead. of giving Europe one. X)t Mormon first deßcdbee tite scene of iaeohAion on ihe PAm-Tientwn ' railway UlMf partJy due to the barbarous -warf art of <fce OWueeej "yet (J» says) it cannot, $ fear, -be denied <tihafc our vaunted civili•ation has little to be proud of the mark whkjh it has left on Northern China in the last year of the nineteenth century." A BEOTAL MASSACRE. Dr Morriflon tells how tie river boat I Bolides: -was los* in the Pei-bo. It was manned by some 300 wretched unarmed | booties, crossmg tibe river to resume, after j *ha Teka bombardmecat, their peaoefttl j avocations. "Sbom the fort the Russians . earned* Heavy gun on to the lighter, sank it, and, as the unfortunate Qhtnamen struggled to the water, subjected them te a munleroas fusillade from the adjoining ramparts. Not one is believed to have es- i , oaped. It was a brutsi deed, and U> was • stupid deed." ~. KAEM-BUaNING— AND FAB WORSE. Every village, every farmhouse on the taolway tells its own tale of destruction. (Japing -waHs and charred ndss indeed only tell half the tale. To complete it one would have to borrow under the debris and up the corpses of women and chfldren ignobly ravished and defenceless men *Alenoed for ever by tlhe snap of a revolver te tibß quick thrust of a bayonet. MOTHER AND CHILDREN. Here is an "occurrence." In Pekin a Chinese woman with two small children, one of them a mere baby in arms, was crossing the Beggars' Bridge. A party of Russian soldieirs came along. The woman was sot quick enough apparently in getting out of their way, so they prodded the mother and the baby with their bayonets and threw them over the parapet into the canal Afl the other child, a boy of about five or six, lay screaming on the ground one of the Russians seized -him by the heels, dashed his brains out on the marble flags, and then flung bhe body headlong after th© others. OUR PEOPLE NOT THE WORST. In the worst 'excesses at any rate, neither the British nor the Anglo-Indian soldier, nor our American cousins seem to have had any hand. The restoration of the railway to BrHfrh control is already doing a good deal w>wardg restoring confidence, and the Rubstans themselves do not disguise their astonishment «b the facility with which a small British military staff under Ooknel Macdooaid, E.B. . . . have reorganised native labour; TEMPLE OF HBAVBN ASP JTRS3V CLASS BUFFO. It to » strange sensation for anyone who bjs known Pekin in its inviolate davs \o plight from a xaflwW oacriag© immediately oposite to the Temple of Heaven, the moat sacred of all Imperial fanes. An enterprisE contractor has aamtaoed and boarded up central archway of the adjoining gate the great pan; wibich surrounds the sacrificial altar, and an inscription in bad French announces thai) in this " Bwette de f jgie classe" ooflee and now be obtained at all hoars. THE HUMILIATBOMr OF PEKES* The oainEtal has been divided tip between the AlMed forces fatfo separate apas. The British and Amerioan areas* in Utd Chinese dty, with the Japemese area h th» northwest of the Tartar city, ace ti» aaorbers confidence, bam been moßt cnrf^Btejy festored «ndi street sfe hes xesumed Hsome ndant its nocmal aspect. | Ti» loog Ttetfr of open gatewftjsx fltrxsufh whioh the *f* phmges aimost into the beart of the Forbidden Cifcy, brings home with startling suddenness the measure of the blow tfial has been dea4i> to tiie pride srf fihe Oaleetisi Eanpws. CHRISTIAN LOOT 'AND LIOENBE. Far some days a$ least aftetr fth« occupation Pekin was given over to wholesale pillage, unrestrained, and aJasl to other forms of license worse than, pillage. There was official looting by superior orders, like that of lbs Japanese | fcbtere was indiscriminate looting by sdLdiem and! ciTilians of every natLonaJfty, and by women ©^ gentle birth as well as by men \ there was looting for the fan of we thing and looting with a strict «y« to bosinesa, there WMxeuliatasyiboi^rbyamittoe Ohrist±ans| tins was even looting by mdssianarieE, Eroma» Oatholk) and P*o*estant» for ohadt«U« purposes 1 It would have been well for the reputafiosi of the Western world i&A reprisals teen confined to looting only. IHB BTRJPPIiro OF THE PAT, Arras In the Summer Pateca, the most beautiful of ail the Imperial (residences, an. Indian itotrr mounts guard over ttie single t yunhflf in which ths Britißh totlhoritlee oeare stared for safety the few artioles of jjjpfertor value left behind them by the after they had packed off all the gvbeießß treasnreg acuincte*ed by the DowftgjW EmpretSk ♦Che Winter Palace, now occupied by Count Waldersee and ihb Qermain Headtfoarten Staff, has been stripped, equally bare, and in the Forbidden City the great toooss lions and peacocks in the oourtJp^ls, a few of the s&orifiaial vesseJs in tie iunpttQ. and «/ number of European dDCsb & the private apartments, axe all iaofc is fctt of its moveable aootnm'eata. 9SB GLORY PEPABTED WHEJN THE uiViusEß came. JDha^jbe people oi Pekin em Lt least Wiidb; uoft replapeu the sVllejx s&iwlq or AMo jnsolpQToa of iton&fir wmes con unslviely Bnt the old scbib stdll lurks Ttiffl teaSh the ftSncey a^f?£/ B * e eß P^>Uy belief puynutiat aye not dead Vtfb otu^/ sjueep, and will Wlp Dp again 4o smttei the forfwncrt aa som las wb gap risw. fa tie Jbi ttia meaolfanft> whatever of >%b glory aid giampur oi jwe East stSB clung to Pekto bfle departed, torobabty for ever; tie W% dng Qod hies? the fc Prtoca of W«fea, Protect nan from tie stazms and gaks j And may Ibis heaitih for ever hol^ Free from either cough or cold. But Princes too, despite restraint*!, Are subject to all chest compla&ita. For wihjch the remedy, tried and sure, Is W. E. Wood** Great Pteppermint (?ure. T835 (BTJGIffil SOUWna TSBM QATiL TO AißMfl, and ii «»lwayß ciheerMly responded to by the British «oMier on active servwej aeveT onoe has he f*Ued hi* counter ta ihe tour oi need. Ii acould ilheseioxe fee » grea/t ihonoar to 'be osUed tits •oldier's mend, a Mue which ihes been -well earned by iHollow^ys KJ'lb and Ointment la barpaoba, oariip, or whilst or. m*rn a wascr ma-roh in a ihoatfle oountry, H^nti madkdnes fuwe Ibeeta Jhe *tay and. oomf^rofj^nissAdi of "OurLada in Bed." In cAses of^ysentpry, dsaiwioeEk, wrta and ague