THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1902.
SECRET DUNGEONS AT MANILA.
about; but during my leave of absence from duty, weak and Hl as I was, I drew up and sent
The discovery of a labyrinth of underground- to their Majesties seven successive memorials .strongly exhorting them not to be influenced Passages and a series of secret dungeons in the by dangerous counsels, etc., but again and that the old city is still to a certain extent an walls of Fort Santiago confirms the supposition again did I find difficulty in my attempt to stop unknown quantity and that, there is no telling the tide. As for the Princes of the various or- ders and all the Ministers of the Court, they what the razing of the walls may bring to light. unite with one acclamation on one subject (then the days of Church role in these islands, great importance was attached to secrecy. Little divine mission and invulnerability of the Boxers
or nothing was above-board. The friars, who -Translator)—and on what subject your Ex-
were according to the best authorities, the cellencies may have already heard, but which heads of the government, had their religion dare not put down in so many words, More knocked into them in darkened monasteries over, those daily around the principal Princes
where the chief object, was to guard against are half of them members of the Boxer Society treachery with treachery, and where greater In the various Manchu and Chinese registore was placed in mystery and impenetrability ments more than half of the privates belong to
than in the daylight and open air. It is there- the same organisation. There are several tens
fore fair to presume that there is much left to
of thousand Boxers inside Peking whip to about to and fro, numerous as grasshoppers. It is a myriad times impassible to bring.order out of this chaos; even with the sacred intelligence of their Imperial Majesties to aid them, they can not turn back to reason the great majority around them! What then was to be done? I could only
wait and see what could afterwards be done to remedy matters in the face of those almost superhuman difficulties, at first recommend- ed there should be a conference at the
Taungli Yamén in the hope, of finding some loophole by which order could be restored; but again was I frustrated, for on that day
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be investigated in regard to the walls, the KOWLOON
monasteries and palaces of the old city and it is more, than probable that the rating of the walls may reveal relics of mediaeval oppression, of which only the padres and the old cavaliers. had any knowledge, and which, to-day would perhaps be regarded with wonder by Americans who know not the significance of
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German Minister, and, thus another phase has been put upon the face of affairs.
Indeed
the crisis changes like a kaleidoscope each
day, for there are from a thousand to ten
thousand changes daily which it is impossible to picture to your Excellencies. Prince Ching and Wang Wen-shao still retain the semblance of having their country's welfare at heart; bat they can do nothing. As for a simple person like myself, were I to die the death, there is nothing to be regretted; but then I should be culpable in the eyes of ten thousand generations in the fature (for having died uselessly without having done something to save my country in perilous crisis like the present). I call upon Heaven to witness that I speak from the heart. Alas ¡Alas ¦ I see no way at all just now except to hope that the sacred spirits in the heavens will help this country, considering that this dynasty has always shown virtue and kindness to its subjects. At present, I see no way to do anything.
Finally, I would beg to call your Excellencies'
of Spain who recognized no equal except those clad in cowl and gown found it the better policy to keep a firm hold on the reins of government through intimidation rather than
by honest trial. Hence it became necessary that they should have inaccessable places in which to enact their cruel acts" of revenge and so called justice.
Colonel Greennough of the 7th Artillery, now in command of Fort Santiago was the first man to report the existence of secret chambers and passages in the walls of the fort. His discoveries were the direct outcome of the clearing away of rubbish and refuse as a preventative measure against the spread of bubonic plague.. When seen by a re- porter he stated that he did not care to give out any information on the subject at the pres- ent time as he had not been apprised as to what action his superiors would take in the matter of further investigation, as indicative of the
degree of importance they attached to his
discoveries.
attention to the fact that I hope you will not. The discoveries have been made close to the ohey any of the Imperial decrees which may be issued after the zoth of June (1900). It is apex of the wall of the fort, fronting the Pasig to be feared that desperadoes may become
restless and rise up in the regions bordering the Yangtze River, and It is my earnest hope that your Excellencies will take steps to protect your several jurisdictions against disturbances, each man doing his duty to the best of his ability.-Yung Lo
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river.
Outside measurements demonstrate that there is a Chamber fifty yards square close to
the apex that has not yet been examined. A spiral stairway has also been found leading from the top of the wall straight down beneath water-level into a tunnel that terminates in a rude door-way which has not yet been opened. Several narrow chambers containing benches
of hewn stone, just about large enough to allow one man to enter, have been examined and from appearances, and according to legend, it is surmised that they were at one time known
as
"SMOTHERING chambers,”
conveying all the horror the name implies. in fact on the outside of one of them evidences still exist of a time when it was sealed up with mortar and rack and thus made airtight.
If only one fifth of the stories told by the natives are true an examination of the walls especially in the vicinity of the monasteries will reveal secret passages leading into the interior of the city, and chambers containing arms and ammunition and even food also money, to be used in time of siege.
It is said that the investigations conducted at Fort Santiago have already led to the discovery of skeletons, chained to the floors of these under-ground dungeons. However, Golonal Greennough stated that no such discoveries had ever been reported to him-Ex.
A BURIED WORLD.
Some account is published in the Daily News of the remarkable excavations which have been made in the little-known land of Chinese Turkestan by the conductors of a recent expedition. The remains which Dr. Stein describes have been bidden by the sands for the last 2,000 years. They are particularly interesting for the reason that the country wherein they have been unearthed was, in ancient times, on the great commercial route between The following is taken from the Manila China and Europe. Greek and Roman traders, Timar, of the 7th Inst—
RUSSIAN FLEET AT MANILA.
PROTECTING A CIRCUS
The Advance guard of the Russian fleet arrived in port laat night in the form of the ironclad battleship Sissoi Veliky, commanded by Captain Jara: suff. This morning the usual
long before the Christian era, traversed the route through the province where the archzolo. gists have began work. The towns and villages of old Turkestan were gradually buried under the advancing sand, just as were thorn of Egypt.
The preservation of such parts of them as have been brought to light is amazingly perfect. The written characters of the inscriptions- great quantities of which have been recovered are all known in India. The culture of the derived
time and country must have been
salutes were fired from the vessel, Fort, San- tiago, and the flagship New York. The Sissot Veliky is of nine thousand tons, and resembles in build and color and American battleship of the Oregon Class. The rest of the fleet is duo this afternoon. or to morrow' with Admiral | from India 2. There is every reason to believe Choknine on board the first-class - cruiser.
that Buddhism was the religion of the people. Admiral Kernilof, accompanied by the battle-
"My excavations," says Dr. Stein, "go to prove that their culture was highly advanced, ship, Navarin. These last two vessels come
and that the art influences of Greece and Rome from Nagasaki, Japan, direct while the arrival were felt even at that great distance from the last night came from Uongkong).
centres of classical culture,"
The visit of the Russian feel to these waters is in the nature of a social call, but coming close upon the heels of the Russian circus from Vladivostok there are not wanting those who say the Czar does not consider the Philippines sufficiently pacified for the hundred or more of his subjects who compose the circue, to land without protection r so he dispatched a fleet to look after and guard the lady dancers and the Jockeys,
One of the towns where the expedition las been at work covers six miles by four. "Until digging began all that was visible were weird- looking rows of bleached timber, piaces pro- jecting in various places like the framework of a wrecked ship from between the dunes,”
Gardens, avenues, orchards, nil neatly ar ranged, have presented, when freed from their Chinese Turkestan will some day be Russian sand Leapa, the appearance they bore ages ago. territory. There, as in Western Turkestau, which has long been Russian, the Taar's servants will have a fine opportunity of restor Ing to a country, once populous, and rich, lis vanished prosperity,"
At the present moment ja Manila the Russian Bear is very much in evidence, with high and lofty tumbling as she is done in Chinese Turkestan became a desert because 'Russian out at the circus ground, and with | ~60 it is surmised-the irrigation was in- sailor horn pipes and stunts aboard ship.out-in sufficiently developed to cope with the advanc the bay. There is every prospect that Manila's ng sand dunes. But the Russian engineers are doing splendid work in reclaiming, by means of canals, their own Turkestan from the wildemets.
populace will soon be treated to a rare con. finuous performance seldom seen in any land.
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