The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-07-06
KILL! KILL! KILL!
Is The Ra|Iyins Cry of.the Boxers
in Pekin.
THE Widest EXCESSES
Are Being Practiced.- Foreign Legations
With Their Occupants Are
Probably Destroyed.

IoOdVAy ANStEOySos
London, July 4.-Couriers who are ar
irving at the seats of government of the
southern viceroys from their agents in
Pekin, give vivid fragmentary pictures
of what is being enacted at the capital.
These couriers seemingly left Pekin IA
day or two later than the messenger 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 at
the top of spears, followed by zealots
chanting "Tapi Yang Kuci Use, Tapi
Tapi' xii tho foreign devils, kill, kilD
the city's millions have been aroused to-
patriotic fever and were breaking out
into the widest excess, while over half
the city could be heard fighting around
the legations. Sir Robert Hart's runner,
who was interviewed by the correspond
ent of the Express at Shanghai, supple
mented the tragic sentences of the dis
patch he bore by a narrative of some
things he saw. He says the foreigners
were making last stand in the extensive
buildings and enclosures 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 commonest necessaries. The
women were starving as they gave part
of their small allowances to the children.
The foreigners nevertheless, were hold
ing out under Il terrible FIRE, upheld by
the hourly expectation. of relief. They
knew they would not be Abandoned and
that the armies of their governments
were advancing. Sometimes they thought
) they could hear artillery in action be-
yond tho wall. They were unable to re-
turn the fire of the Chinese except at
moments when an assault seemed immi-
mont. Then the machine guns and re-
peating 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 batter down
tho walls of the court yard and their
ammunition was running low.
Orders were given by Prince Taun, the
messenger says, that since some had
been killed, not one of the foreigners
should be left alive. The Chinese sol
diers were exhortcd to sacrifice their
lives without hesitation if by so doing
they could help exterminate the wang
kuci tse.' Extreme precautions have
; been taken to prevent foreigners from
communicating with any outside city,
and number of runners who had been
) sent out wero killed by the Chinese.
This messenger succeeded in getting
through by smearing his face and clothes
with blood and joining in the cries
against the devils He passed the re-
mains of foreigners of Admiral Seymours S
force who had been killed between Lang
Fang and Lo Flu. Their bodies had been
cut to pieces and their heads were car
ried at the ends of bamboos.
A large army of Manchu Chinese i'm
perial troops with 20 guns is reported to
be advancing in the direction of Tien
Tsin. Reliance is placed in Shanghai on
most of the statements made by the mes
senger, as he is known to he faithful To
the foreigners.
The consular body at Shanghai is OF
the opinion that the food and ammuni-
tion of the besieged legation forces at
Pekin must have been exhausted and
that they must be dead or imprisoned
and that it would be futile to make a
desperate effort for their relief with an
inadequate force. 1t is regarded at
Shanghai as appalling that nothing is
being done for the relief of the besieged
foreigners and that they should be aban-
doned to horrible fate
Various accounts of the murder of
Baron Won Kettler reach Shanghai. The
correspondent of the Express says that
Prince Tuan, who is the dictator at the
) capital, tried by means of trap to in
duce the ministers to leave the legations
1 so that they might be massacred by fan
! atics, thus evading governmental respon-
t sibility for their death. The American,
: British, French and Russian ministers
y suspected plot and refused to leave the
: legations. Baron Won Kettler, however
: accepted the invitation and left the Ger
0 man legation with small escort of Ger
S man marines. Opposite the foreign
i Office he was assailed by the Chinese
Q soldiers and was shot four times. The
y foreign office was burned by the marines
4 in their endeayor to defend Baron von
!, Kettler, whose body was hideously mu
tilated.