Probably this week, ws shall hear of another gathering of Boxers ina slightly different direction; attack on " village burning and kilns; troops dispateired possibly " few killed and wounded in an engagement; to be follow: by the inevitable butelering on East Parade Ground vf Cie igtu.
And yet Boxerism continues to +p why? Dense ignormee, extraor credulity, one may answer. But there is more at the bottom. Th must have been well prepared, or this hideous exe cone" could not so thrive 'The o'd story of "The Imperium in Imperia" is the Official status assumed, privitee claimed, and so-called rights exercised, are bearing' their legitimate freit! And all without regard to nationality, and tens of thousands of Quinese, accordingly. One must in strict justice to mention the long drought of the early parr of this year, as one of the conditions or twiier as favouring the condit on, forthe spread of Boxerism. Hunury men are de-per te men, nad they will gain any movement that pr. mi-es even the shadow of relief. Without doubt many of our present Szechuan Boxers were originally famine refugees, pure and simple. Measures for their relief were so lung delayed and Fo inadequate that one is not surprised ar their hee ming Boxers. Rice hxs!-een for months, and is still, 50 per cout higher th n the usual pric, What is left for those pow ty-stricken people, who earn only en each day to feed themselves for that day Behind itali, however, is the leaven of "too many conks." Tis has _b-en work ing for two years or mere, and the broth bad enough already. What will it be after another year or s0 of this sort of cwking"?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.