Editing Boxer Protocol (section)

== Hoax demands ==
The French Catholic vicar apostolic, Msgr. Alfons Bermyn, wanted foreign troops garrisoned in [[Christianity in Inner Mongolia|Inner Mongolia]], but the governor refused. Bermyn resorted to lies and falsely petitioned the Manchu [[Enming]] to send troops to [[Hetao]], where Prince Duan's Mongol troops and General Dong Fuxiang's Muslim troops allegedly threatened Catholics. It turned out that Bermyn had created the incident as a hoax.<ref name="Ann Heylen 2004 203">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WSl5cl_wt24C&q=ma+fuxiang+gelaohui&pg=PA203|title=Chronique du Toumet-Ortos: looking through the lens of Joseph Van Oost, missionary in Inner Mongolia (1915–1921)|author=Ann Heylen|year=2004|publisher=Leuven University Press|location=Leuven, Belgium|page=203|isbn=90-5867-418-5|access-date=June 28, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z2japTNPRNAC&q=prince+mongol+general+whole+affair+hoax+catholic&pg=PA539|title=Han-Mongol encounters and missionary endeavors: a history of Scheut in Ordos (Hetao) 1874–1911|author=Patrick Taveirne|year=2004|publisher=Leuven University Press|location=Leuven, Belgium|page=539|isbn=90-5867-365-0|access-date=June 28, 2010}}</ref> One of the false reports claimed that Dong Fuxiang wiped out Belgian missionaries in Mongolia and was going to massacre Catholics in Taiyuan.<ref>{{cite book |title=Fire and sword in Shansi: the story of the martyrdom of foreigners and Chinese Christians |first=E. H. |last= Edwards |year=1903 |page=[https://archive.org/details/fireswordinshans00edwauoft/page/167 167] |publisher = Revell |location = New York |ol= 13518958M |url=https://archive.org/details/fireswordinshans00edwauoft}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The I. G. in Peking: Letters of Robert Hart, Chinese Maritime Customs, 1868–1907|first1=Robert|last1=Hart|first2=James Duncan|last2=Campbell|editor1-first=John King|editor1-last=Fairbank|editor2-first=Katherine Frost|editor2-last=Bruner|editor3-first=Elizabeth MacLeod|editor3-last=Matheson|year=1975|publisher=Harvard University Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ZybVIprRUMC&pg=PA1271|page=1271|isbn=0674443209|access-date=24 April 2014}}</ref>