Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-07-09
HORRIBLE BARBARITIES PRAC-
TICED BY CHINESE.
ADVANCE is IMPOSSIBLE
International Troops Feel They Can
Make No Roadway Towards Pc
kin-Tremendous Task Confronting
the Allies-Pekin Absolutely Sealed
By Hordes of Boxers.

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the allies in Tien Tsin inform CORES
pondents it would be suicide to attempt
to reach Pekin with the troops now
available, in the face of the colossal
force of imperial troops and boxers oc-
cupying the country between Tien Tsin
and Pekin. So far from taking the Of
fensive, 10000 international troops at
Tien Tsin and 5000 others at Taku
and intermediate points can barely
keep up communications, fighting in
cessantly with overwhelming numbers.
This telegram has been received:
Shanghai, July 4, via Chefoo: Tien
Tsin city fell between and June 30
Shanghai undoubtedly referred to the
native city of Tien Tsin, from which
the Chinese have been bombarding the
foreign quarter and the dispatch is
taken to mean that the allies are more
than holding their own. Other advices
received by way of Shanghai, aver the
Chinese losses around Tien Tsin are
between 1000 and 5000.
A correspondent telegraphing
Wednesday says Admiral Seymour
was wounded while sitting in house
at Tien Tsin by Chinese sharpshooters.
Official news received at Chefoo shows
the Chinese have been guilty of horri-
BILE cruelty toward the wounded and
captured, subjecting them to what is
known as ling che, or the slicing pro-
cess. Under this hideous rite, the
bodies of the fallen have been mutilat-
ed, the Russians retaliating by whole
sale shooting of natives. The situa-
ton according to the Express cores
pondent, shows signs of drifting into
barbarism and savagery. Revolving
stories are told Of barbarit1eS practiced
upon Japanese and European prisoners
captured on the way to Pekin. Chinese
troops marching toward Tien Tsin
left behind them trails of rapine. fire
and blood. Japanese generals are be-
lieved to be about to move toward Pc
kin, following the plan previously
formulated. European and American
residents in Shanghai are quite in
panic over what they view as made
quate military preparations Of the
powers A dispatch to the Express
from 81 anghai says that according to
the best military estimates half a mil
lion men will be necessary to subjugate
northern China and even then it will
take two or three years. The forces OF
the Chinese empire have gathered such
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launched now would be unequal to the
task of restoring order.
The tao tai sheng of Shanghai issued
a proclamation Wednesday which prac-
tically fo1bids foreign warshlps ap-
preaching the -Tse-Kiang, saying
if they do so, the Chinese authorizes
will not hold themselves responsible
for consequences. 1t is considered
Chinese officials are preparing way to
evade responsibility if an outbreak oc-
ours. Even Ii Hung Chang is suspect
ed. Foreigners are simply aghast at
the extent of the Chinese ornaments
which have been Systematically ac-
cumulated. The action of the admirals
in not attempting the relief of the be-
sieged forces has filed the entire Euro
pean community with bitterness and
despair. But the weakness
of the allied forces left
no other course open. The huge force
now cutting off the capitol from Tien
Tsin numbers 100000 nearly all of
whom are well armed. The allies have
no means to transport their food in the
country as it is being laid waste. The
question of ammunition is also a seri-
Gus one. Only Japan, and to a lesser
extent Russia, is able to push war ma
terial in the vast quantities made nee
essary by continuous fighting. The
concensus of opinion among military
and naval authorities is that it will re-
quire at least $4,000 men to
rescue the Europeans in Pekin
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