THE BOXERS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 20, 17 July 1900, Page 4

THE BOXERS.

In the absence of definite informjation concerning the aims and organisation of the Boxers, the Howe journals have been driven to seek the ommons of officials and others who no\e spent many yenrg liv Northern Chiii'T, and 3b is perplexm^ to read the •\aeiou < 3 and cGntnulic'oiy statements that hive 'been obti n:d m this way. Ona traveller c-vjiams tbe origin of the nnuie. In the ciuious phiaseo^oyy of the Chinese, he says, the socefcj which now tb.Ler.ccns the disruption \oi tiie Enip'io is literally knov.n as the "Righteous Harmony Fi^" 01 fhe " fJi^ lit eons Ciwibnif'l'on jCu-ic'.lvi^," exvnossinp, th© sUtnglh anil unity of the members Ly the symbol of a c'encheil liauil. TLtss Ir^ii-soiiadni" (Jhiacse titles have be £ -n convei'vC-d by tlie clover young taiMvlaul'-s ot the English Con-alar iSai.iCe jiilo the expie&si\e tean "B'A&i-.." The same anlho.iSy jsse.'ts tbi u "no 00 3 in China questions the aims of the o.Jer; the oLpoi ol! the sooscvy u. uniljnbcb'l'y to oppose all foreign. in rei fere ac 3 and counteract Western] in{luenc3-'' Yet a high Chinese oiijoia! has declared thnfc the riots or'gmaiiy had no political signifi'coaricc. fhe Chinese name for the rioiy'H's, Vi'hich other people bell us is " Tue Croat Sword Societj/'u said by this official to be "Ito Bpo3vo\e»it, IlaL-vnoniouri Soc'aty," iiiid ikm kfnd of volunfcsov eors fosmtd for the protection of \illaga by Imperial edict. &te Spraai, i\^ain, a misaionary who chujnsitf have made converts among Ik Poxrrs, says that the movement is a stirring up of ail the seed iousties in North China, a revolt ol {the Anil-Foreign Dcvii type. Th« uoteus, ha says, are armed with anything they can get hold of~ QnifiQck-S Jlartini-Henrys, sbillel-agh-3 and half-brjckt'." In Ameucan u-ploin.-'tic circles it was free!; a?-eited th?t the increased activity of tbe Boxcis v/as part of <i conceived plan of . . European Powa Lo s-care d permanent lodgements !P'-Lm and on the Pei-ho Kiwt, The schomo waslrastmtcd "by tbe pt-omptnes' 3 , ifc is .said, of to Amerscin Mr Conner, who li>Mo the affair an nnde&irabii injjornational aspect.