The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-07-11
s'TAPI YANG
KUEI TSE, TAPI!r
"Kill the Foreign Devils ~ is
The Chinese Cry in Pektn.

LONDON, July 81 oV a. NJ
Couriers who are arriving at the
seats of government of the southern
viceroys from their agents in Pekin
give vivid but fragmentary pictures
of what is being enacted in the
capital. These couriers seemingly
left Pekin day or two later than the
messengers of Sir Robert Hart. the
inspector general of customs, who
started on the night of June d
They report that the heads of some of
the captured Legations guard were be-
ing borne through the streets a. the
top of spears. followed by zealots
chanting s'Tapi Yang Kuei Tse ; Tapi!
Tapi!" ("Kiil the foreign devils kill
kill!") The city's millions have
been reused to patriotic fervor,
breaking out into the widest
excesses, while over half the city
could be heard fighting around the
legations.
Sir Robert Hart's runner, who was
interviewed by the correspondent of
the Express at Shanghai, supple
ments the tragic sentences of the dis
patch be bore by narrative of some
things he saw he says the foreign
ers we're making q last stand in the
extensive buildings and enclosures
of the British legation They bad
many dead and wounded. Among
them were some women and children.
all were short of food. even the com
monest necesssries. The women
were starving as they gave q part of
their small allowance to the children
The foreigners. nevertheless. we're
holding ont under terrible FIRE, up.
held by the hourly expectation of
relief. They knew they would not
be abandoned aud that the armies of
their governments were advancing.
Sometimes they thought they could
hear artillery in action beyond the
wall They were unable to return
the FIRE of the Chinese, except at
moments when an assault seemed i'm
minent. Then the machine guns and
repeating rifles tore the storming
parties to pieces. The messenger
expressed the belief that it would be
impossible for the foreigners to resist
much longer, as the Chinese were
preparing to better down the walls
of the court yard and their ammuni-
tion was running low.
Orders were given by Prince Tuan,
the messenger says, that since some
had been killed, no other foreigner
should be left alive The Chinese
soldiers were exhorted to sacrifice
their lives without hesitation, if by
doing 80 they could help e1terminate
the "Yang Kuei Tee" Extreme
precautions had been taken to pre-
vent the foreigners from communi-
eating with any one outside the city
and number of runners who had
been sent out were killed by the
Chinese.
This messenger succeeded in get
ting through by smearing his face
and clothes with blood and joining
in the outcries against the "devils. !"
He passed ths remains of foreigners
of Admiral Seymour's force, who had
been killed between Lang Fang and
10 Fu. Their bodies had been cut
20 pieces and their heads were car
ried at the ends of bsmboos.
A large army of Msnchu Chinese
Imperial troops, with twenty guns,
10 reported to De advancing in the
direction of Tien Tsin
Reliance is placed in Shanghai on
most of the statements made by the
messenger. as be 10 known to be
faithful to the foreigners.
KAISER'S SPIRIT AROUSED.
Berlin. July 3.-AddressiDs The
detaehmens Of German marines vbioh
sailed from Wilhelms Haven for Chins
yesterday the Emperor made remark
able epeect. daring which be notified
the world Of Germaoy's intention to
svenge the murder of Baron Won
Ketseler, the late minister of Germany
at Pekie. and the missionaries, aBd TO
dictate terms to the Chinese from the
palace at Pekiu. His Majesty spoke
as follows:
1.-The Ere brand of war has been
hurled in the midst of the most pro-
found peace Unbappily this was. to
me. not unexpected The crime is
unspesksble iusoleuoe, borrifyiDg in it's