The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-07

with constant watching, fighting and
digging trenches. The greatest credi.
Is due to Mr.. SQuires. secretary Of the
United States legation whose military
experience Is Invaluable
The Hong Kong correspondent of
The Daily Express announces the ar
rival there from al Francisco OF
Homer Lea, for some time secret agent
In the United States OF the society for
the reformation of the Chinese empire.
with 600 DOC. which Will presumably
be utilized in connection with the revo-
lutionary movement against h m
press dowager, a movement ~quiescent
since 1898 until within the last few
weeks"
SLAUGHTER OF CONVERTS
Nearly all the correspondents con-
firm the reports OF a wholesale massa-
ere of Christians outside of Pekin, a
ing the number OF killed as between ten
and fifteen thousand, all d~efenseless
converts. Imperial troops, so 1t Is
stated, did the CHASTITY work
According TO the Shanghai corre-
spondent Of The Times, one of the mem
bers Of the Tsung Ii Yamen mentioned
by United States Consul Goodnow as
having been beheaded for ~pro-foreign
tendencies was Hsu Ching Cheng,
former minister to Russia. The CORE
spondent says the mpresS dowager
ordered the execution on the advice OF
Ii Ping Hong.
Ii Hung Chang has been informed
from Pekin hat Prince Ching's only
prominent supporters in his peace poll
cy are General Yung Lu and Wang
Wen Shao, president of the board OF
evenue whose influence is small.
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ANARCHY IN PEKIN. 5
Che Foo, July 26, via Shanghai, Au-
gust 2.-The latest reports from Pekin
were brought by disaffected officers Of
the Chinese army. They are consider
ed reliable. The officers left Pekin on
July 18th They say anarchy had
reigned in Pekin for months, and the
streets ran with blood, the Cinnamon
fighting among themselves.
Jung Lu, commander-in-chief of the
Chinese forces, and Prince Ching es-
poused h cause of the foreigners and
underworld with the part Of the army
loyal to them to expel the Boxers.
Later, with the majority Of the impe-
rial troops under anti-foreign leaders,
Prince Tuan and General Tung Fuh
Sian were victorious and Jung Lu and
Prince Ching, with their followers
were prisoners in their yamens when
the bearers of these reports left Pekin.
Prince Tuan and General Tung Fuh
Sian appear to control the govern
ment, according to the officers, and
issued edicts, printed in the Gazette,
~exhorting h Chinese to kill all for
eigners n native Christians. One
officer says there are 16, 1000 troops in
Pekin, including lungs army and
5000 more at Yung Tsun. TIE soldiery
hold all the streets within a mile OF
the legations.
The foreign troops, when the officers
left Pekin, had burned and abandoned
the Chenmon gate. Their ammunition
appeared to be failing and their
quick-firing guns had been silenced for
some days before July 18th and they
were using their rifles only when hard
pressed.
; Shanghai, August 3.-Li Hung Chang
is preparing a proclamation granting
virtual amnesty to Boxers on condition
that they creating disturbances.
London, August 3.-The forward
movement for the relief of the foreAgn
legations in Pekin began Sunday, July
29th. A message from Tien TSin on
that date say the advance guard of
the Russians occupied the Chinese
camp n the Japanese pushed UP the
right bank Of the Pei Ho without op-
position. 1t was the expectation that
the whole of the allied expedftionary
force, about 20, 900 men, would be on
ShC ihoi ny IueSudy, July 0lSl. Six
teen hundred Americans and $500 Brit
ish are cooperating. 1t is purposed to
follow the river, using boats to carry
food, ammunition and artillery.
News agency dispatches dated at
Shanghai, Thursday, August End, say
the ferocious Lii Ping Hong, formerly
governor of Shan Tung, has arrived at
Pekln with a large following of troops.
On the way north he killed two French
priests and many hundred converts. Lii
Hung Chang is alleged to have sent a
message to Pekin to keep Ii Ping quiet.