Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-07-12
THEIR LAST FIGHT.
Foreigners in Pekin are Hemmed
in by Murderous Hordes.
Allied Military Forces arc Unable to
Force Their Way Through the
Army that Bars Their Prog
ress TO the Ca pitaI and the
Legations Members
are Doomed.


rived at the seats of the government
of the southern viceroys from their
agents in Pekin give vivid but frag
Inentary pictures of what is being
enacted in the capital. These cour-
iers seemingly left Pekin a day or
two later than the messengers of Sir
Robert Hart, the Inspector general of
customs, who started on the night OF
June "A. They report that the heads
OF some of the captured legation
guards were being borne through the
streets on top of spears, followed by
ZealotS chanting XIII the foreign
devils; kill, kill" The city's millions
have been reused to patriotic feryor,
breaking out into the widest excess
es, while over half the city could he
heard fighting around the legations.
Sir Robert Hart's runner, who was
interviewed by the correspondent of
the Express at Shanghai, supplements
the tragic sentences of the disI Iatch
he bore by a narrative of some things
he saw. He says the foreigners W ere
making last stand in the extensi e
buildings and enclosures of the Brit
ish legation. They had many dead
and wounded. Among them We're
some women and children. All were
short of food. even of the commonest
necessaries. The women were starv-
ing, as they gave part of their
small allowance to the children.
Shanghai, July 5.-Three Chinese
servants of foreigners have escaped
from Pekin. They report that all the
foreigners, 1000 in number, including
400 soldiers, 100 members of the Chi
nese customs staff and a number of
women and children, held out till
their ammunition was exhausted, in
the British legation. The legation
was finally burned and all the foreign
ers were killed.
London. July 5.-The commanders
of the allies in Tien Tsn inform the
correspondents that it would be sui
eide to attempt to reach Pellin with
the troops now available, in the face
of the colossal force of imperial
troops and Boxers occupying the
country between Tien Tsin and Pekin.
This telegram has been received:
shanghai, July 4.-Tien Tsin city
fell on the morning of June 30.'
1t is understood that Shanghai I'M
doubtedIy referred to the native city
of Tien Tsin, from which the Chinese
have been bombarding the foreign
quarter, and the dispatch is taken to
mean that the allies are more than
holding their own.
Taotai Sheng, of Shanghai, issued a
proclamation on Wednesday which
practically forbids foreign warship
approaching the Yang-tse-Kiang, say
ing that if they do so the Chinese
authorities will not hold themselves
responsible for the consequences. 1t
is considered that the Chinese Off
cials are preparing a way to evade
responsibility if an outbreak occurs.
Even Ii Hung Chang is suspected. The
foreigners are simply aghast at the
extent of the Chinese armaMents.
London. July 6.-The story that all
foreigners in Pellin were murdered on
June 80 or July l appears to be circu-
lating simultaneously at Che Foo
Shanghai and Tien Tsin. Yet as it is
not confirmed by official dispatches
and not traceable to the southern
viceroys, who are still in communica-
ton with Pelin, there is basis for
the hope that it is untrue.
Two Manchus who have arrived at
Shanghai certify to the truth of the
statement that Prince Tuan visited
the palace and offered the emperor
and the dowager empress the alterna-
tive of poison or the sword. The en-
peror, they say, took poison and died
within an hour. The dowa@er en-
press also chose poison, but swallow
d only Il portion of what was offer
ed her and survived.
London, July 1.-THE Russian gov
ernment announces that it will give
Japan a free hand to apply military
force in China. The terms of this con-
sent are summarized in a dispatch
from st. Petersburg, under date of
July 6, in reply to an inquiry from
the japanese cabinet, regarding the
sending of Japanese troops to China
to render aid to the foreigners in
Pekin, the Russian government de-
elared that it left the Japanese gov
ernment full liberty of action in this
connection, as the Toxic cabinet eX-
pressed its readiness to act in full
agreement with the other powers. 1t
is in consequence of this, no doubt,
that Japan is preparing to embark
10000 more troops.
Recitals of further horrors in Pe1in
are gathered by correspondents at
Shanghai from Chinese sources, espe-
cially of the slaughter i'll the city of
thousands of native Christians.
The capital reeks with carnage.
The ruthless thirst for blood is
spreading in all the northern prov
inces. and wherever there are native
Christians the scenes enacted in the
capital are reproduced in miniature.
From these stories nothing further
comes regarding the legation forces.
The correspondent of the Express
says there is no longer any doubt
that disaster has overtaken the Rus
sian force of 5000 men that left Tien
Tsn for Pelin on June II. The Rus
slams had full field gun complement.
Engiand's Losses I'm the ROer War.
London, July 4.-The war Office has