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CHINA AND HER REVENUE,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25; 1902)

Chou, and I have come to arrest certain Boxer

WHOSE FAULT IS IT?" desperadoes hiding in your house." The voice, The world is fill of disease and pain, inside craftily kept the Captain parlaying, say- Whose fault is it? Everybody's; therefore ing one thing and another until the majority of often the fault of the sufferers themselves. the Boxers inside had noiselessly climbed out But the pressing question is,-what to do, how of the rear wall of the farmhouse, where, divid to relieve, how to cure. What would become ing into, two bodies, they made a détour to of us if means were not found to destroy attack the soldiers, the district magistrate and disease? Why, then, of course, disease would his yamên ruoners, be it noted, remaining at

destroy us and the world would be de- a_spot farther away. As soon as a loud shout,__populated.____Until_we_team_how_to-prevent- warning the Boxers inside the farmhouse gate

disease, we must be thankful for the means of abating and curing it after it has seized upon us, and stands, like a savage with uplifted axe, ready to take our lives. Especially do we need some sure and speedy from of treatment. for those complaints which are universal,- which arise in every country and climate, and ravage poor humanity at all seasons of the year. We allude to such ailments as Nervous and General Debility, Hysteria, Scrofula, Chronic Diarrhoea, Asthma, Throat and Lung Complaints Blood Impurities, and the ills of women and children. For these

A NIGHT ATTACK ON BOXERS.that their friends outside were about to fall on the soldiers, was heard, the gate was suddenly thrown open, and about a

THRILLING STORY,

The N. C. D. News translates the follow. •DOZEN HOXERS ARMED WITH SWORDS ing from a private letter received at Shanghai and lances rushed out and cut down the rash from Chengtu which city was invaded the other Captain Chou, who taken utterly by surprise day by Boxers, that may throw some light.aubad no time to defend himself. Simultaneous--- the state of affairs-in-that region prior to the ly the troops-found-themselves attacked on episode noted above. In the meanwhile the the flanks. Fearing treachery the sergeants news received by the local mandarins from were prepared for an onslaught, and so kept that quarter make them consider the situation; the Boxers at bay. The district Magistrate, in Szechuan to be sufficiently serious as to Fu, and his runners, then rushed up, and a produce grave doubts whether . E Tsco desperate struggle ensued, the soldiers and Ch'un-hsuen, the new Viceroy, will be able to

runners anxious to recover the body of Captain suppress the rising now become almost univer.. Chou, while the Boxers wished to retain his sal in Szechuan province with the resources"

x~~ b dỹ (o. offer up his head and heaït to the within his reach at the, present moment.

manes of their dead friends, some of whom As matter of fact Viceroy Ts'ên will have at his had been previously captured by the Cap. disposal, when he takes over his seals of office

tain and heheaded by him. Eventually in Chengtu-that is to say, if the Boxers will Captain Chou's body was recovered by his let him-a rabble of some 12,000 odd,

men, but not until nine soldiers and fifteen runners had been slain in the

the cash box of the Central Government It goes into the pockets of the tax collectors. The "One would have imagined that for the pre- geasant pays and the mandarin pockets, but all sent at least the great undertaking of Sir James these their silver threads go astray between the -Mackay in framing, arguing and settling the province and the capital, and ultimately there British Commercial Treaty would have been ̈ remains nothing to the Emperor for the pay satisfactory to most people, and when a French ment of the foreign debt and the maintenance Journal would have us believe with all serious of the public services. What is needed is less ness that what is needed, is not so much the the increase of Customs' duty than the absolute increase of Customs duty as the absolute re-reformation of the Chinese administration............. formation of the Chinese administration we look forward with "interest to its next issue trusting to be confronted with a crisp article setting forth the ways and means of accom--- plishing such an end. We will not discuss the point, but proceed to refer to some of the mère salient points arising out of an article appearing in· L'Echo de Chine dealing with the question of the Chinese land tax. According to this there it is only one duty in the country that is wisely controlled and collect ́ed; and that is the one which, under the denomikation of Customs duty, is collected by Europeans under the clever management of Sir Robert Hart. The above is by the way, and the writer proceeds to point out that on a previous occasion the fact had been demon. strated that the Chinese, Government did not draw any revenue from Imperial lands, while the minimum annual revenue was nó less than Taels 24,003,000. Before the famous Taiping Rebellion the land tax collected on property held by the people amounted to Taels 29,470,000, and at present, contributes to the receipts of the Empire the sum of only Taels 25,900,000. The Chinamian is the owner of land by virtue. of title and this title indicates the area of the land, the place it occupies and its boundaries. It should be believed that the land register is so well established that the area of land under. cultivation must be exactly known. In this as many other things China has commenced but she has achieved nothing. It appears that each under-perfecture holds a survey plan, fairly exact, of property subject to taxation; but the central adminstration does not seem to have required the copies of these particular plans. When one wishes to estimate the cultivated areas he finds himself reduced to guess work only. China on the whole is a thickly popul." Armies" of Boxers had been driven same ated country and the Chinaman does not let a parcel of arable land remain unproductive, be takes from mountain, river and sea every piece of land susceptible of receiving seed. The L'Echo de Chine can, while holding themselves within the limits of the wisest moderation, affirm that China has proportionately more arable land than France, and in France sixty three per cent of the land is given up to cul- tivation, Gobelow this gure and let us admit that only 40 per cent of the area of China is

devoted to cultivation. It is now a question of knowing what the tax collected on these lands should give the Imperial treasury. Land is not equally taxed.

In the foreign settlements the Innd tax is fixed at 1.500 cash a mow; while, according to informations that we have, the land tax varies between 300 and 800 cash per mou. We have formerly said that the area of the Chinese Empire-and by Chinese Empire we designate the eighteen provinces-was six thousand million mows. Forty per cent of this figure would make the taxed and stand at 2,400,000,000 mow. If we take 500 cash per mów as an average we find, taking the Shanghai tael at 200 cash, that the land tax should bring into the imperial treasury a total of 1,000,000,000 Shanghai tacls. Now China receives actually 25,000,000 Kouping taels. We will overlook the difference, because after all, if the tax does not go in its entirety into

RAGGED, AND ILL-PROVIDED BEGGARS - who stagger under the burden of the weighty Appellation of the "Terror-inspiring Grand Army whose Presence Ensures Peace and Quiet to the most distant places. Only 4,000 of this conglomeration are in Chéngtu, amongst whom are some artillerists belonging to the Viceregal Guards. These last are about the best of a sorry lot, but they have only two or three old-fashioned Armstrong field pieces with them, and their side arms are of the old pattern breech-loading rifles. The remaining 8,oce, or so territorial army of Szechuan, are scattered about the province, 3,000 of whom are with Provincial Judge Chen Yü supposed to be guarding certain passes in the hills, in the vicinity of Chôngtu, into which several

time ago to prevent their reappearing in the plains. So far about official news. The private letter in question runs as follows:-On the 20th of August, hearing that there was a gather ing of some zoo, odd, Boxers at a place called Hungtiaopu, some five miles outside the North- gate of Chengtu city, who were intending to

make

A NIGHT ATTACK

DESPERATE ENCOUNTER

and overs thirty more or less wounded. The troons and runners slowly retreated towards Chéagtu, incessantly harassed by the pursuing. Boxers until a strong force of troops with artillerists and a couple of field pieces appear. ed and covered the retreat of the badly used soldiers and yamén runners. It is rumoured that Mr. Fu, the magistrate; suddenly dis covered that he had pressing business in the city which required immediate personal, atten- tion, and so did not wait for the recovery of the body of his military colleague; but let it pass. On the night of the 21st August Boxers attacked a village called Langch'uanye, some eighty mules from the city of Chien- chou, and

MURDERED A CONVERT

named Ma: they also pillaged and burned a number of houses belonging to the village. Had the authorities been alive to the situation this would never have happened. Owing to the great superiority of the Boxer forces in the villages round about Chêngiu, the trops placed as 3 cordon around the on a Christian church situated on a neigh have been so hard pressed that the high provin

city to prevent nearer ingress of BoxCTS bouring hill called Mup'anshan, the Chengical authorities have had to almost deplete the military authorities dispatcheri a Captain garrison in order to strengthen the cordon Chou with fifty men to accompany Mr. Fu, the district mavistrate of Chêngtu, who with a per- Chungking, or the new Viceroy arrives quickly outside. Unless reinforcements come from sonal guard of yamen runners started at dusk with his personal brigade of disciplined and to the Boxer place of gathering, with the objec of breaking up the meeting. It appeared that

foreign armed troops, the cordon around the Boxers were assembled in a large farm. Chengtu will be driven in by the Boxers and house, and were on the point of starting on gular siege begin. This, at least, is what the their expedition of fire and murder when the more thoughtful amongst us think will prob troops and yamên runners arrived before the

ably happen soon. farmhouse. The whole village seemed to be asleep and quiet, except the farmhouse, which showed some lights, Captain Chou went for ward alone, keeping his men at a short distance away in order not to start the quarry too sud. denly, and knocked loudly for admittance. Some one inside

THE WALLED FARMHOUSE came to the gate and asked who was there. Captain Chou foolishly replied: "I am Captain

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