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LETTER FROM HONGKONG. THE BATTLE OF TIENTSIN.
FURTHER MASSACRE OFMISSIONARIES. CHARACTER: OF LI HUNG CHANG. A WILY DECEIVER,
HONGKONG, July 27.—The situation in China has not materially changed since I last wrote; but some important events have happened. One of these undoubtedly is the departure of the Viceroy Li Hung Chang for the north. His Excellency, having received an Imperial edict appointing him Viceroy of Chihli and recalling him to the capital, announced his intention of obeying this summons on the 16th inst., and. on the 17th he baae farewell to Canton, leaving H. E. Te Shon, the Governor of Kwangtung, In charge pending the appointment of his successor. LI HUNG CHANG'S MENTAL ENERGY. I am told, shows no abatement, and he certainly left his mark on Kwangtung during the few months he administered it. When he arrived at ;Canton the gaols were crowded, piracy amd brigandage were rampant throughout the interior, and especially in the delta of the West River; and when ne took his departure the prisons were almost empty, order had been restored in most districts, and the robber' gang had learned that the Viceroy's arm was very long- and uncommonly heavy. His ways were SUMMARY, BUT EFFECTIVE. In one month alone upwards of 2000 heads bit the dust of the execution ground, and trials were regarded as superfluous in cases where a man was a known bad character. In such cases it was simply a sentence of "cut head;" Only a few days before his departure Li's attention had been drawn to a noted gambling house in Canton, and he was told that the two men wno kept .it were formerly notorious pirates. "Then," said he, "why is this house suffered to exist? Off with their heads." And:before dusk of that day the gambling-house keepers were shortened by a head. It was feared that when LI'S RESTRAINING INFLUENCE had been removed the turbulent City of Ruins would break out into antimissionary and anti-foreign demonstrations. But up to the present this anticipation has not been verified, though there is an uneasy feeling abroad, and many unruly spirits are on the "gui vive," waiting only for a chance to create a disturbance and to drive the foreign from Shameen. Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 198, 21 August 1900, Page 5
FURTHER MASSACRE OFMISSIONARIES. CHARACTER: OF LI HUNG CHANG. A WILY DECEIVER,
HONGKONG, July 27.—The situation in China has not materially changed since I last wrote; but some important events have happened. One of these undoubtedly is the departure of the Viceroy Li Hung Chang for the north. His Excellency, having received an Imperial edict appointing him Viceroy of Chihli and recalling him to the capital, announced his intention of obeying this summons on the 16th inst., and. on the 17th he baae farewell to Canton, leaving H. E. Te Shon, the Governor of Kwangtung, In charge pending the appointment of his successor. LI HUNG CHANG'S MENTAL ENERGY. I am told, shows no abatement, and he certainly left his mark on Kwangtung during the few months he administered it. When he arrived at ;Canton the gaols were crowded, piracy amd brigandage were rampant throughout the interior, and especially in the delta of the West River; and when ne took his departure the prisons were almost empty, order had been restored in most districts, and the robber' gang had learned that the Viceroy's arm was very long- and uncommonly heavy. His ways were SUMMARY, BUT EFFECTIVE. In one month alone upwards of 2000 heads bit the dust of the execution ground, and trials were regarded as superfluous in cases where a man was a known bad character. In such cases it was simply a sentence of "cut head;" Only a few days before his departure Li's attention had been drawn to a noted gambling house in Canton, and he was told that the two men wno kept .it were formerly notorious pirates. "Then," said he, "why is this house suffered to exist? Off with their heads." And:before dusk of that day the gambling-house keepers were shortened by a head. It was feared that when LI'S RESTRAINING INFLUENCE had been removed the turbulent City of Ruins would break out into antimissionary and anti-foreign demonstrations. But up to the present this anticipation has not been verified, though there is an uneasy feeling abroad, and many unruly spirits are on the "gui vive," waiting only for a chance to create a disturbance and to drive the foreign from Shameen. Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 198, 21 August 1900, Page 5