Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-04

LONDON, July Al: 80 a. NJ
Couriers who are arriving at the
seats of government of the south
ern viceroys from their agents in
Pekin, give vivid but fragmentary
pictures of what is being enacted in
the capitol.
These couriers seemingly left
Pekin a day or two later than me
messenger of Sir Robert Hart, the
inspector general of customs who
started on the night of June "a
They report that the heads
of some captured legation
guards were being borne
through the streets ut the top of
spears. Followed by zeaIots
chanting "Tapi Yang Kuei Use;
Tapi, Tapi," c'kiI the foreign
devils, kill, kill.'o
The city's millions have been
reused to patriotic fervor, breaking
out into the widest excuses, while
over half OF the city could be heard
! fighting around the legations.
sir Robert Harris runner, who
was interviewed by the correspond
lent of the Express at Shanghai, sup
Aplements the tragic sentences of the
dispatch he bore by a narrative Of
some things he saw. He says the
Foreigners were making the last
stand in the extensive buildings ana
enclosures of the British legation.
They had many dead and
wounded. Among them were
some women and children. All
were short of food. even of the
commonest necessaries. The
women were starving as they
gave 81 part of their small al
loxvance to the children. The
foreigners, nevertheless, were
holding out under terrible
fire, upheld by the hourly ex-
pectation of relief. They knew
they would not be abandoned
ANDY that the armies of their
soySrnments were advancing.
sOm etimcs they thought they
could hear artillery in action
beyond the wall.
The " were unable to return the
ire of the Chinese, except at mo-
ments when an assault seemed i'm
minent. Then the machine guns
and repeating rifles tore the storm
ing parties to pieces. The messen-
ger expressed the belief that it
would be impossible for the foreign
ers to resist much longer, as the
Chinese were preparing to batter
down the walls of the court yard,
and their ammunition was running
low.
Orders were given by Prince
Tuan, said the messenger, that,
since some mad been killed, no
other foreigners should be left
alive. The Chinese were cx-
horted TO sacrifice their lives
without hesitation if by so do
ing they could help exterminate
the "Wang Kuei Tze."
Extreme precautions had been
|aken to prevent the foreigners from
communicating with any one out
side the city and a number of run
ners who had been sent out were
killed by the Chinese. This mes
senger succeeded in getting through
by smearing his face and clothes
with blood and joining in the out
cry against the devils" He
passed the remains of foreigners of
Admiral Seymours force who had
been killed between. Lang Fang and
10 Flu. Their bodies had been cut
10 pieces and their heads were car
ried at the ends of hamboos.
A large army of Manchu Chinese
Imperial troops with 20 guns, is re-
ported to be advancing in the direc-
ton of Tien Tsin Reliance is
placed in Shanghai on most of the
statements made by the messenger.
as he is known to be faithful to the
foreigners.
SHANGHAI, July According
to the latest Pekin news, from Chi
nese sources, the legations are at
such extremities from lack Of pro-
visions that the women who escaped
the bullets are perishing of starva-
ton.
Prince Tuan is said to be publicly
beheading all the legation guards
captured BY the Chinese.
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