The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-07-20
HORRIBLE BUTcHERY.
Victims of tho Pekin Massacre Met Death
Like Heroes-AmmunItiOn of Allied
Forces Exhausted and Hand
to Hand Fight Ensusd.

LONDON July 15.-Ihe Shang hal cor
respondent of the Daily Express, on
the alleged authority of couriers who
brought the story, gives very sensa-
tional account of the slaughter of
foreigners at Pekin. He says:
"Maddened with hunger, after hav-
ing been without food for many days,
the members of the legation and the
guards made sorte on the night of
June 3Oth and killed 200 Chinese in an
unexpected attack. Gen. Tung Fuh
Slang, enraged over the loss of so many
men, brought up heavy guns, and Prince
Tuan gave the order that every for
eigner must be destroyed. His words
were: Destroy every foreign vestige
and make China a sealed book to all
Western powers
Prince Tuan had previously discov-
cred that Prince Ching was supplying
the foreigners with ammunition. He
therefore ordered Gen. Tung Fuh Slang
to fire on Prince Ching's troops, and it
is reported that Ching was killed or
seriously wounded.
In the final attempt to cut their
way through, the legations formed
square, with the women and children
in the center. When the Boxers realized
that they were being attacked they be-
came like wild beasts and shot each
other with revolvers. Heavy guns bonn
barded all night, until the buildings
were demolished and in flames. Many
foreigners were roasted in the ruins.
The Boxers rushed upon them and
hacked and stabbed both dead and
wounded, cutting off their heads and
carrying these through the streets on
their rifles, shouting fercely. They
then attacked the native Christian
quarters, massacred all who refused to
join them, outraged the women and
Drained the children. Hundreds of
mission buildings were burned"
The correspondent adds: "All China
is now afiame with revolt against for
eigners. Only in the extreme west is
there quiet.
Every port, even Shanghai, is
menaced. In the provinces of Hupe
and Human thousands of native Chris
tians have been mutilated and tortured,
the women being first outraged and
then massacred."
Calling For RetributIon.
The morning papers are unanimous
in believing that the foreigners have
been annihilated and are calling for
retribution.
The nai1v (-brouic1a oo,npoau+S ,1or
the statement of its Washington cor
respondent that the United States gov
ernment will not consider itself at war
with China, and says:
IF the Americans are resolved to ac-
cept an apology and indemnity for Mr..
COnger's murder they may as well
take the consequences without moving
another man or gun.
Emperor William can hardly take
the Washington view, for he has
pledged himself to retribution, and he
is man of his word"
The Daily Telegraph, the Times and
other papers applaud Lord Salisbury's
policy of employing Japan as the only
policy that might have saved the for
eigners.
The Daily Telegraph declares that a
terrible responsibility rests upon those
who delayed Japenese action.
The Times publishes letter from it's
Pekin correspondent, dated June 10,
which contains an assertion, made on
seemingly good authority, that the en-
press dowager had decided that every
foreigner was to be massacred that
from its correspondent, dated June IA,
when the Boxers had made two at
tempts to rush the foreign quarter.
Canton dispatches say that Ii Hung
Chang had planned to start for the
north on July 18th, but he is much de-
bilitated by catarrh of the stomach.
He ordered the leader of the Black
Flag" to march with $4,000 men over
land to Pekin against the Boxers.
Among the numerous Shanghai ru-
mors are ports that the governors of
Shan ST and Ho Nan have Joined the
anti-foreign movement, and that fifteen
members of the Canadian Presbyterian
mission and five engineers have been
mobbed near Nan Yang, in Hu Peh.
1t is also reported from Shanghai that
the allied fleets are concentrating off
Shan Hal Kwan and have been ordered
to shell and capture the forts.
A Toxic telegram announces that 49,
600 Japanese troops are now embarking
at Hiroshima.
More Troops for China.