The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-11-07
PURSUE BOXERS.
French Troops Purging Villages in
the Neighborhood of Pekin.


Paris, Nov. "a dispatch TO tho
HaVas agency from Pekn, dated Octohor
81, says:
The foreign ministers continued TODAY
the discussion of the peace propositions -
be presented to the Chinese The French
proposals were. accepted. Additional
specifications will be discussed MONDAY
On account of the necessity for thoromsh
! accord between the different cabinets th4
hnaI vote will not be presented for sew
eral weeks.
Gen Voyron, {commander-in-cb chief of
the French troops in China), with the al
nss under his command, is purging the
NSilaages: around lien .Tsin and Pelzin.
Many villages infested with Boxers have
been destroyed and their inhabitants pun.
lshed. A French column sent TO Tuan
Teacned the missionaries there. Another
Erench column met with resistance NJ
olel Chung. The enemy's losses were
considerable. The village was burned.
News received from Pao Ting Flu in
man troops upon 81 Ling, where the i'm
peTlal tombs are situated. It is rumored
mat the army of Yang Yum Kante hos
resolved to defend the place.
!, AS the result of inquiries made nv
the International commission. under Con
RIallloud (second in command of the
French troops in China). the alias orc
convinced that the grand treasurer and
the governor Of Pao Ting Flu and a Chi
nese colonel were instrumental in tha
murder OF American and English mis-
sionanes and they have been condemned
10 death and will be executed soon.''
Punishment of Princes.
London, Nov "A Times special from
Shanghai, dated Wednesday. saws:
"A Chinese report states that Lin KIM
II ana Chang Chi Tung have memorial
lzed the throne to order the punishment
OF the princes and ministers who sun
ported the Boxers, otherwise the exist
ence or the empire will be seriously on
dangered. They state that the foreign
troops are probably going to Ching Ting.
1t is reported that Sheng had been Or
dered to Pekin Immediately.
Native papers allege that the terms
demanded by the powers include the paw
ment Of an indemnity of 4OO.OOO0GO
taels.. that the customs of Pekin he
placed under foreign control, the return
OF the Emperor, the imprisonment of
Prince Tuan for life, foreign garrison
at Pekin, the country opened to foreign
trade everywhere, and the prohibition Of
the purchase OF war MATERIAL
Germans Show No Mercy.
Berlin, Nov. 2.-Considerable imna-
tience at the meagerness of the news
from China is finding expression here,
L Ae lAIcIeuce is InaC German censorship
over such information is very strict.
Letters from privates in China begin
to find their way into the Social Demo
cratic papers, showing that the German
troops give no quarter The Bremen
Buerger Zeitung publishes letter from
a soldier in Pekin, who said he witnessed
the following scene: "Sixty-eight cap
tives, some of them not vet adults. were
tied together by their pigtails beaten
bloody by the Germans, compelled to dig
their own graves and then shot en-
masse."
The Halberstadter Volks Zeitung
prints communication from Pekin in
which the writer says
NO prisoners are taken. All are shot.
or probably sabered to save ammunition.
On Sunday afternoon we had to bayonet
seventy-four prisoners. They had killed
one of our patrolmen. An entire battal-
ion pursued them and captured seventy
four alive. 1t was cruel. 1t was indie.
scribable'
Americas Attitude Pleases Russia.
st. Petersburg, Nov. 2.-The text of
the American, French and Russian an
sWers TO the note answering the Anglo