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Volume VIII. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER, ’00. Number 1.
THE BATTALION.
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As a result of the war in China, Pekin,
the capital, was captured by the allied
forces on August 16, and the barbarous
war precipitated by the Boxer movement,
so fiercely waged against missions and the
legations, daily gathering force and
frenzy, unopposed, pillaging and mur
dering both foreign and native Christians,
men, women, and children indiscriminate
ly. for the present at least, after a num
ber of hard-fought battles between Tier
Tsin and Pekin, is at an end. The tact
that a ‘-trong support was given to the
Boxers by the imperial troops, and that
the forces of the allied army were re
sisted by imperial troops, together with
the flight of the emperor and dowager
empress from the capital on the ap
proach of the victorious foreigners, sup
ports the opinion that the uprising had
governmental sanction and is responsible
for its consequences', whatever may have
been the purpose. It is clear also that
the government had in view some ma
terial advantages to be gained to the
empire, and that the foreign powers
would be affected to their disadvantage.
With the questions involved in the ori
gin of the war, America has no concern
further than that of a spectator. The
safety of our legation and citizens in
China demanded prompt action, and pro
tection could only be given by the dis
patch of an" army to relieve the imperiled
legationers. With the fall of Pekin and
the retreat of the imperial forces, the
war presents little of interest other than
questions concerning peace negotiations,
the diplomatic status of which are indic
ative of future results that can not be
foreseen, and of which the world is stand
ing in doubtful expectancy.
Several of the powers have large in
terests in China, principally diplomatic
holdings under the appellation of “spheres
of' influence,” calculated, no doubt, to
arouse the suspicion that the purpose of