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STEAMER ON FIRE.

VIN HONGKONG"; HARBOUR,

What threatened to be a serious fire broke

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1902.

So long ago as January missionaries stationed | the Peking mandarins or the redsashed Boxers." around Chengting saw signs of coming If the writer bad merely intended to call atten=" trouble and warned the officials to take note tion to the manifest difference between the

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of it, but they, official like, sud "it is naught; phenomena in the northern, tier of provinces, THE Undersigned have received instructions

out on board the Indo China steamer down during the first moon to put things it is naught.". Some troops were, however, sent Sang, at 12.30 yesterday afternoon. The ship's straight and they employed their time in cargo consisted of a large number of packages "talking peace" and only succeeded in making ofsamahu put upin stone bottles, vernicelli, and a highly inflammable Chinese medicinal root, matters worse, for just as a more reasonable from Taku. A tallyman, crawling over this in spirit was beginning to prevail among the search of the marks that were to be discharged, people, the unwary remarks of a military dropped a lighted match on a package over

official made public wrath rekindle; since then which some Samshu had leaked, with the, to

it has been war to the knife, with the knives him, astonishing result that it immediately continually multiplying. The original out- hurst into flames. It was in the fore part of break was on the part of the villagers of number four tween decks that the blaze Kuangtsung and Nankunghsiens, both of which originated, but as the bottle of liquor became the Boxer troubles, and resented the infliction places kept themselves unstained throughout heated and burst, the blazing Samshu ran of penalty taxation for what they had not done. underneath the cargo and into the number three

But the movement soon spread to adjacent dis- 'tween decks, bursting more bottles there and

tricts where Boxerdom had been rife, and setting fire to the Ginseng root,

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and those in the centre and

THE SOUTH OF CHINA,

there would be no occasion to comment on his remarks. But what he says is quite different from this, to wit, that the people of the centre and the south bate the Manchus, and were not in- fluenced either to co-operation with or sympathy for the outbreak of two years ago. It is in the first place to be always remembered that while it is easy to generalise as to what is "quite clear now,*it-is-a-much more difficult matter even for those who are on the ground to arrive at a satisfactory certainty as to the facts, for the excellent reason that as a role more than ninety per cent of them are outside of our range of vision. During the autumn of 1901, when foreign' journalists (and none more than

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The signals "Fire want immediate assist/exboxers rallied round the yellow banner of the Americans) were uttering the most dog-with

ance" and "My cargo is on fire" were run, up, and the ship's hoses got to work as promptly as possible. The first upon the scene were Capt. Hodgins, of the 1.5. Formosa, and some of his officers, who generously rendered the most valuable assistance until the arrival of the brigades. Within 25 minutes of the outbreak, the fire party from H.M.S Terrible and the gunboats in the harbour, were on the scent, followed shortly after by the town fire-floats.

It was some time before the fire could be located, owing to the

+DENSE FUMES

raised by the burning medicine ; while, with the quantity of water that was being pumped into the 'tween decks, the ship commenced to bee! lover to an alarmingly large angle. Fortunately the heel was to port, in which corner the fire was blazing most furiously and the quantity of water that rushed into the wings, served to a great extent to prevent the spread of the fames, By 2 p.m., the bluejackets, aided by the ship's crew, had succeeded in hoisting out sufficient cargo from the square of the hatch, to permit of a descent being made, but it was still some time before, the hoses could be used effectively.

The ship's officers and engineers, led by the mara superintendont, were working hard below with the hoses, to save their ship; and once the locality of the fire was sighted, it was but a few minutes to its extinction. But it was still impossible to ascertain if the outbreak was entirely subdued, as the choking vapours, generated by the Ginseng, saturated with sam- shi, made anything like a near approach to the after corner impossible. Finally the No. 3 cargo port, on the port side. was got open, allowing, the accumulated water, with which the ship's pumps had been unable to cope, to escape; and permitting, the introduction of a hose from the outside, within a few feet of the fire. By 3-40 p.m. the fire had been extingu- ished sufficiently to justify

THE_NAVAL BRIGADES

being piped off; the city floats reeling up and following ten minutes after.

The ship herself has suffered but little dam ago. the port after stringers of No 3 hold and the forward ones of No. 4 being burned sway. The Ting Sang is an iro decked vessel, and though the plates in some places were hot enough to make walking in thin boots decided- ly unpleasant, the trouble that would have en- sued had the decks been of wood, was avoided. The damage by fire is but slight, some twenty packages of samshu, and the same number of Ginseng being destroyed in either hold. But the damage to the cargo from the water that had been indiscriminately poured on, before the outbreak was located, must be considerable.

Nothing could exceed the pluck and

BULL-DOG TENACITY with which the British blue-fackets stuck to their work in the overpowering smoke, which was of a peculiarly pungent character, many of them remaining in the tween-decks until liter, ally at their last gasp. The captain and officers of the ship also deserve credit for the grim determination with which they remained in the 'tween decks amid the suffocating vapours. By four-thirty, the stevedores, who, like the proverbial rate, had promptly deserted he ship, returned, derricks were hove up, and work of discharging the sodden cargo com

nced.

In the whole, the Ting Sang is to be con- lated that, with four thousand demijohns shu in thetween decks, the outbreak

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to the cause and show his independence of earthly ties, first massacred all his own family, and this act of barbarity instead of repelling the people appears to have attracted them, and his following is now anything, from 10,000 to 40,000. Until the 3rd mrou however the move ments of the rebels or "league" as they style themselves, did not attract much attention outside official circles, where their doings were perfectly well known, but in view of the pros- pective return of Tientsin City, Yuan obviously décided to ignore the state of affairs. Eatly in the 3rd moon however, a military. Wei Yuan named Pao chanced to pass through the dis- turbed districts with a number of recruits for Yuan's new forces, and the rebels thinking their intention hostile fell upon them and slew the Wei Yuan and his men with a very great slaughter, the survivors hastily scattering. Three days later a force of 1,500 was sent from Nankung to avenge the Wei Yuan's death, and of these some 200 to 300 were killed and the rest routed, about yo horses being captured by the rebels. Two days later a French priest was killed at Chi-chien,

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outside the city gate, and the church burnt. This was on the 19th of the 3rd moon; and now word comes that the Magistrates at Nan- kunghaien, and at Kuangtsung have also been killed, much to the grief of the missionaries here, who knew the men well and had found them most kindly and helpful. The rebels hold Weihaien, where they are busy making arms. covering nearly too square miles. So far the and altogether eight or ten districts are affected Imperial troops have achieved nothing, but Yuan vows to level every village and doubtleas will revenge himself for having his plans upset, get Tientsin city back now so soon as he as it seems more than probable he will not

expected.

The Government are still quietly promoting those who were concerned in troubles of 1920 and took an active part in them, and as" ;

QUIETLY DEORADING ALL

who in anyway espoused the foreign cause. The last on the honour list is Colonel Chang Chun-fu who led the attack on Ching Chow Mission and killed 3,000 converts in three or four days. He has been created Comman der-in-Chief in Hupeh.

matic statements as to the hidden history of this strange movement, the one man whose knowledge of the Government of China was greater than that of any other, and whese opportunities of information were far in excess of those of any one else, observed to a friend that "we know no more to-day about the inner history of the event in Peking than we did a year ago." It has been explained hundreds of times, and nowhere more fully than in these columns, that the reason why the central provinces of China did not flame up into univeral massacre, was because there was

A CHAIN OF STRONG MEN reaching from the Yellow Sea to the frontiers of Thibet, who had bound themselves by a solema and irrevocable agreement not to allow the Boxers' mania to get a start within their jurisdictions. These able rulers, who will pass into history among the truest of Chi- nese and Manchu patriols, were Tuan Fang in Shensi, Chang Chih-tung in the "Broad Lakes," Liu K'un-yi over the "Two River" proinces, and Yuan Shih-k'ai in Shan-tung. It is more than superfluous to recapitulate what they did. It is far more desirable to emphasize what they prevented, and in regard to this there can be no manner of doubt on the part of any one acquainted with the facts. Had a man like Ya Hsien been in command in any one of these capitals, we should have seen what was witnessed in Shansi. Of this, the

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and they appealed powerfully, immediately, and profoundly to the strong national feeling which in this Empire takes the place of what is elsewhere known as patriotism, how could it be otherwise than that the Chinese and the Manchus were united as they had never been before against a common foe, in the common purpose to expel him at any and at all costs? Any other view we belleve to be Dot only superficial and inadequate, but seriously misleading. We have difficulties enough as It is, without needlessly adding to their number by the gratuitous exploiting of a baseless BAUMENTAR TOO, CYNICAL

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