Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . THE BOXERS INCITING THE PEOPLE TO INSURRECTION BY A PUNCHAND JUDY SHOW. THE PIG REPRESENTS THE MISSIONARY. TARTAR SOLDIERS DESTROYING VILLAGES AROUND TIEN-TSIN OTHER FOREIGN POWERS. 493 English and French interests conflict in the province of Yun-nan which is wealthy in tea and mining interests, where the influ-ence of France, by treaty with China, is paramount
Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . THE BOXERS INCITING THE PEOPLE TO INSURRECTION BY A PUNCHAND JUDY SHOW. THE PIG REPRESENTS THE MISSIONARY. TARTAR SOLDIERS DESTROYING VILLAGES AROUND TIEN-TSIN OTHER FOREIGN POWERS. 493 English and French interests conflict in the province of Yun-nan which is wealthy in tea and mining interests, where the influ-ence of France, by treaty with China, is paramount. By virtue ofthis same treaty France, who holds Tonquin securely and hasgrabbed the sugar island of Hainan, was also given the right tinclude the provinces of Kiang-si and Kwangtung in her sphereof influence. France, therefore, practically controls nearly 400,-000 square miles of Chinese territory, and if this were allotted toher outright she would be compelled to maintain an army of atleast 100,000 men there. RUSSIAS WAITING. Of all the great powers Russia is better situated, geograph-ically, to assume control and domination of territory in China thanany other. Siberia borders upon the northern frontier of China;the province of Manchuria is virtually Russian; Port Arthurowned by the Czars government, is but 300 miles from Pekin,whi
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