We have no leisure to detach our thoughts from the machinery and carry them further on to its Maker and Director.
The great reforms of Josiah are throughout initiated and controlled by the king.
There was little international comity in primitive times, and nations were slow to recognise that they had common interests.
The Chinese were gaining daily, or rather nightly, in making the breaches in the eastern wall larger and more numerous, until they had nearly razed the entire structure.
All members of the Boxer society are exerting their utmost energies for the imperial family, so we must not be behind them in harboring hatred and revenge for our enemies.
The Tientsin train is overdue, and our communication with the coast threatened.
He was then taken to Jung Lu’s headquarters in the imperial city.
Rumors continue to fill the air of plots within the palace, riots against the Catholic cathedral, railway being torn up between here and Tientsin, etc.
Party of thirty Belgians, including women and children, attempted to escape to Tientsin, and were attacked by Boxers.
But the Chinese must understand that previous events had led to a want of confidence, and that if barricades were erected or troops moved in the vicinity of the legations, the foreign guards would be obliged to fire on them.
Every concession made by China only increased their reliance upon force.
A messenger arrived yesterday from Tientsin from Mr. E.
I refer to the riot at Lukouch’iao, known to the English-speaking world as Marco Polo bridge, from its having been accurately described by that early traveler.
The tsung-li-yamen has requested the foreign ministers not to bring troops, assuring them they are not necessary; but the situation here has at last impressed them, and they have disregarded the yamen and ordered up guards at once.
In the meantime we have a resting spell of a few days.
The tsung-li-yamen has sent a vague and temporizing reply to the foreign ministers’ demand requiring the suppression of the Boxers.
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