Connecticut western news., 1900-07-05
THE CHINESE CRISIS.
The German Embnssador Killed and
 Others Tn Dire Peril

Courirers arriving at the seats of gov ernment of the southern yiceroys from Picking give vivid but fragmentary pie lures of what is being enacted in the cap ital. These couriers seemingly left Pe- king a day or two later than the messen- ger of Sir Robert Hart, the inspector general of customs, who started on the night of June 24. They report that the heads of some of the captured legation guards were being borne through the streets at the top of spears, followed by zeloats chanting. "Tapi yang kuei tze; tapi, tapiw (kill the foreign devils; kill, killr1
 The city's millions have been reused to patriotic fervor, breaking out into the widest excesses. while over half the city could be heard the fighting around the legations.
 Sir Robert Hart's runner, who was in- terviewed by the correspondent of The Express at Shanghai supplements the tragic sentences of the dispatch he bore by a narrative of some things he saw. He says the foreigners were making a last stand in the extensive buildings and inclosures of the British legation. They had many dead and wounded. Among them were some women and children. All were short of food, even of the com honest necessaries. The women were starving as they gave a part of their small allowance to the children. The for eigners., nevertheless, were holding out under terrific fire, upheld by the hourly expectation of relief.
 Orders were given by Prince Yuan, the messenger says, that, since some had been killed, not one other foreigner should be left alive. The Chinese soldiers were exhorted to sacrifice their lives without hesitation if by so doing they could help exterminate the wang kuei tze." Extreme precautions had been talk en to prevent the foreigners from com municating with any one outside the city, and a number of runners who had been sent out were killed by the Chinese. This messenger succeeded in getting through by smearing his face and clothes with blood and joining in the outcries against the devils" He passed the remains of foreigners of Admiral Seymour's force who had been killed between Lang-fang and Lo-fu. Their bodies had beeen cut to pieces, and their heads were carried at the ends of bamboos.
 A special dispatch from Shanghai, dat ed July ?, says that the taotai of Shang- hai notified the Chinese newspapers that. beginning June 21. no notice will be talk en of decrees of the so called imperial government, as Prince Yuan had seized the power on that day.
 Various accounts of the murder of Baron von Ketteler reach Shanghai. The correspondent of The Express says that Prince Yuan, who is the dictator at the capital, tried by means of trap to in duce the ministers to leave the legations so that they might be massacred by fa- natics. thus evading governmental re- sponsibility for their death. The Amer ican, British. French and Russian min isters suspected a plot and refused to leave the legations. Baron yon Ketteler. however, accepted the invitation and left the German legation with small escort of German marines. Opposite the for eign office building he was assailed by the Chinese soldiery and was shot four times. The foreign office was burned by the marines in their endeavor to defend Baron von Ketteler, whose body was hideously mutilated.