Daily Kennebec journal., 1900-07-16
ALL FOREIGNERS KILLED.
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battery did splendid work 1t was un-
fortunate that the allies did not have
more cavalry to pursue the flying
lenemy
-Four hundred Chinese We're killed and
six guns captured. AT noon. the settle
ments were again viciously shelled
from the native city and the hospitals
and other buildings We're repeatedly hit.
The moral effect of the successes of the
| allied forces upon the Chinese is be-
lieved to be very great
| Gen. Caselle and staff. with q force
of Punjab infantry arrived yesterday,
at Hong Kong and proceeded for Taku.
The French consul at Shanghai, at a
reception, Saturday, made an impas-
stoned speech. He said
The history of the world can show
TO parallel to such a situation; and. if
the abominable crime, the mere thought
of which makes US shudder. has been
perpetrated, then it is our desire that
swift and summary punishment shall
fall upon the perfdious nation which
committed it. Our government is fully
aware of the danger in which we are
placed and l can assure you that we
are doing all in our power to avense
| the noble victims of Chinese barbar-
Iity."
The following is the text of an appeal
Of Americans in China. assembled in
mass meeting in Shanghai to their fellow
| citizens at home:
| Urge the government to send adequate
| forces to act effectively in concert with
| the others. At present the American
| forces are quite disproprotionate to the
| interests involved. Our commercial in
| terests in the northern provinces are
paramount and we consider it a humili-
ating policy to entrust to other powers
| the chief task that Of protecting Ameri-
cans.
And foreign outrages are multiplying
daily. Officials and missionaries are
maSsacred. The fate of the ministers and
their families in Pekin is not known but
n general massacre is apprehended.
Wholesale massacres of native Christians
continue. The whole country is terror
lied. Trade is paralyzed.
The speedy restoration of order and
retribution are duties pressing upon all
civilized powers. The consequences of
delay will be disastrous. Not only are
foreign lives and property placed in
jeopardy. but the loss of influence will be
incalculable.
Give no credence to statements of the
situation sent by the Chinese government
to its ministers abroad. The present out
RACES are the result of the weak and
vacillating policy of the powers in the
past. We urge immediate energetic and
concerted action
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Daily Mail says: Il can assert posi-
lively that the Chinese authorities had
the dreadful news from Pekin. a week
ago. and that Sheng knew all the for
eignerS in Pekin We're dead when he
asked the American consul to cable
Washington a proposal to deliver the
foreigners in safety at Tien Tsin on
condition that the allies would suspend
their operations to the north of Pekin.'
The correspondent adds certain de-
tails of affairs at Pekin after June 25.
According to his story the members of
the legations made daily sorties. some
times by night. and so successfully as
to compel the Chinese to retreat from
the immediate vicinity. These reverses
had a dsheartening effect upon the
Chinese and there soon began to be
open signs of dsaffection followed by
desertions to Prince Ching's army |
which was endeavoring to cooperate |
with the besieged. Ultimately Prince |
Tuan decided to make a night attack |
in three powerful columns.
AT 6 O'Clock in the evening of July |
g." says the correspondent fire was |
opened with artillery upon the British |
legation where the foreigners were con-
centrated. For two hours the walls |
were battered with shot and shell and |
huge breaches We're made in them. |
Then general advance was ordered |
and the Chinese infantry, volleying |
constantly, moved toward the gaps.
THE fire of the defendants, however
was so accurate. and steady, that
hordes of Chinese soldiers and Boxers
broke and fled in the widest confusion |
leaving large numbers of dead and
wounded around the legation. They |
could not be rallied until they were out
of rifle range of the foreigners. Then
Prince Tuan, making a desperate ap-
peal induced them to stand and return
to the attack.
Artillery fire was then resumed;
and at the middle watch a second at
tack was attempted. But before the at
tackers could accomplish their object
they were met by Prince Ching and
Gen Wang Wen Shao with their troops
who We're going to the aid of the for
eigners A desperate battle ensued be-
tween the various forces of Chinese
and Manchus.
unfortunately many of Prince
Ching's troops deserted to Prince Tuan
Prince Ching fell and was supposed to
have been killed but as the search for
his body was unsuccessful. it is now
be leved that he was only wounded and
was carried off and .secreted by his |
faithful followers,
Gen. Wang Wen Shao, gray haired
and 30 years old. valiantly led his
| troops in person, He was killed and
his force. which was completely out
numbered. was routed.
throughout the night repeated at
tacks We're made on the legation, but
these were invariably repulsed With
heavy losses. Toward the end of the
third watch about 5 A. N, the allies
had practically defeated the besieSers.
who yare wavpripU and gradually |