New-York tribune., 1900-07-02
Won KETTELER'S DEATH.
ATTACKED BY NATIVE TROOPS WHILE
ON HIS WAY TO THE TSUNG-
LI-YANIEN

Shanghai, July 1.-The British Consul at Che
Foo telegraphs that Baron Won Ketteer. Ger
man Minister at Peking was murdered bv ma
tive troops June 1S. He was attacked while
proceeding to the Tsung -li-Yamen. where he
died
still undestroyed June %.
The American Consul here states that Yung
Lu telegraphed June 26 that the other Ministers
were safe that morning but the situation was
desperate, and he doubted whether the Minis
ters could hold out twenty-four hours longer.
as he and the Empress could no longer give
protection.
London July 2-Of1ciaI dispatches received
by the consular body at Shanghai, says an
Express" cable dated Shanghai. JULY 1. confirm,
in the fullest manner the report Of the butchery
of Baron Won Ketteler, the German Minister,
on June IS. The Minister was riding in Lega-
tion-st. when he was attacked by Chinese troops
and Boxers. dragged from his horse and killed.
His body was hacked to pieces with swords.
The German Legation and six other buildings
were burned, and a number of servants of the
into the flames
Official confirmation of this CHASTITY business
has created the utmost CONSERVATION among
the consuls-general of the Powers. who ex-
pressed fears that Toutrance will be
declared against the Pekng Government. The
are left alive in the capital. There were one
hundred foreigners connected with the legations
fifty in the Custom House, English and Ameri-
can tourists and others to the number of 150
and nearly five hundred legation guards
The British Foreign Office. THE Daily Mail"
learned, has received news from the British
Consul at Che-Foo that Baron Won Ketteler
has been killed, but no other information
Baron Klerens August Freiherr Won Ketteler
the German Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary to China. born in Westpha-
liza, Prussia, on November %, 1858. His father
Macmillan Friedrich a landed proprietor,
the owner OF the main properties of his family,
who devoted himself to the care of his estates
and to agriculture. Young Won Ketteler entered
the Prussian army, determined to follow mill
tary career but after a few years service his fit
ness for a diplomatic career attracted attention
and he was appointed Attache of Legation and
sent 10 the Orient. His first position of promi-
nence was gained in 1889. when he trans
ferred to Pekng, where he acted as Charge
d'Affaires for nearly two years Although still
in the junior grade of the service, his next pro-
motion was gained by his appointment TO Wash
ington as First Secretary of the Legation and
eventually Of the Embassy. During Baron Won
Ketteler's stay in the United States he took a
leading part in social functions, and one of
the most popular members of the Diplomatic
Corps. From Washington he promoted to
Minister to Mexico in 1896, and after
ceiving this notable advancement he
ried in Detroit TO Miss Maud Ledyard. the daugh-
ter of the president Of the Michigan Central Rail
road whom he had met at Senator McMlan's
home IN Washington the year before. Baron and
Baroness Won Ketteer remained in Mexico only
short time, as Won Ketteler was honOred again in
May 1899, by orders to Peking. He arrived at
his new post on July - of last year, and had
since discharged with signal ability his duties.
which were rendered most important by the ac
ouisition of Kiao- Chau and German railway ex
tensions.