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 .. . heng—Taotai of Shanghai, Administrator of Telegraphs andRailways, and head of the Imperial Bank of China. Son of Heaven—Name applied to the Emperor. Tien-Tsin—Treaty port of China on the Gnlf of Pechili,eighty-six miles south-east-of Pekin. Tsi An—The Em-press Dowager, aged 65and widow of the Em-peror Hsien-Fnng, whodied in 1861. The pre-sent Emperor is not abl
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 .. . heng—Taotai of Shanghai, Administrator of Telegraphs andRailways, and head of the Imperial Bank of China. Son of Heaven—Name applied to the Emperor. Tien-Tsin—Treaty port of China on the Gnlf of Pechili,eighty-six miles south-east-of Pekin. Tsi An—The Em-press Dowager, aged 65and widow of the Em-peror Hsien-Fnng, whodied in 1861. The pre-sent Emperor is not ablood relation of the Em-press Dowager. Tnan, Prince—Grand-son of the Emperor TaonKwang, and President ofthe Boxers, or Big Swordsociety. He is father ofthe heir apparent and at-tempted to usurp the im-perial power on June 20,1900. Tung Fuh Siang—Chinese general, whose troops assaultedthe legations. Ying Kuo Fu—The British legation. It used to be a Princespalace, or fu. Yuan Shi Kai—Governor of Shantung, in which provincemost of the Boxer outrages have taken place. He is the militaryally of the Empress Dowager and an opponent of the Emperorsreform plans. Yung Lu—Ex-Viceroy of Pechili and a progressive official to. s. PICHON,French Minister at Pekin. 62 THE RECENT MASSACRE OF FOREIGNERS. whom the Emperor owed the preservation of His life at the time ofthe coup detat. He is bitterly hated by Nieh, Tung and otherBoxer generals. Until the usurpation of Prince Tuan he was gov-ernor of Pekin. Wei-Hai-Wei—British naval base in China, leased by Chinesein 1898. CRUELTY LIKE THAT OF THE TIGERS. No country is more peaceable than China. No people moreamiable. In no land are kindness, gentleness, courtesy, self-sacri-fice and long-suffering so held up as the ideals of human , beneath all those, or accompanying them, is a crueltywhich borders upon the ferocity of the tiger. To the Chinese mind an enemy is a crimiual of the worstclass. The rules which apply
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