Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-04
IN ANFU[ CONDITION. : /
The Situation ct British, Lsgafie8I
in Pskin Described @ eons.
thing Terrible
Wounded Uncarsd For and the -
Unburied- Foreigners Hay
All Perish. 4s3
Germans Said to Have Burned ~
Tsnng Ii Yamen- -Tisn IsiA
Attacked Again

London, July Mot q single foe1gn.
er is now alive in Pekin, Is the latest
Chinese report, which reached shang-
thai. Earlier reports from the same
sources describe the condition Of tho
British legation az something awful: Il
\ is said the rooms OF the legatico Ara
| filled with sick and wounded. the killed /
Lying unburied in heaps. It 70 believed b
many members and onicialss Of the Tsu6
Ii Yamen perished when the German
guard, maddened by the murder Of g0er.I
man Minister Won Ketteler. ret Are TO-
the building. That foreigners g The
4 Chinese capital are abandoned TO thelf
horrible fate seems no longer ODen To-
4 doubt s5l
"A dispatch from Taku dated the 3eths
saye the British and Russian admfra1sS
at a council Of war held on the 30ths dee
cided it was impossible to attempt to-
lrelieve Pekin without greatly increAeedE
forces. They also concluded 1t would heq
possible to hold Tien Ts.n. but In the
event OF this not proving feasible they
Twill endeavor to retain poseeezion Of
l5Taku. One hundred and forty thousAMd
. imperial troops are stationed between
: Pekin and Tien Tsin. while the totel al.
lied forces barely numbers 10000.
Advicea from Shanghai today say
! there is continued fighting at Tien Tsans
! while the German consul at Che Foo
< Itelegraphs Berlin confirming the resort
7 |of the renewal Of hostilities. He says
o the foreign settlement at Tien Tan ~
r again surrounded and e being oom-i
S lbarded and the women and children are
: Ito be removed. Chinese troops again
Q advanced against the railroad And
n bridges were destroyed, but conmwnt-s
cation by water with Taku IL main
tanned. 1t is reported Gen. Nieh-Chan8
y lis advancing for an attack on Tien TUln
n with 10000 troops
IS Shanghai. July All the gvicstoys Of
ls1 Yangtpe- Ktang region have detersainea
eel 10 keep peace The governor e M,
a province of Che Kiang alone d showing
De anti-foreign tendenciee a ~
ts from Robert Hart, inspector gensrA1scG
n customs, dated June Is, reiterateS that
m the situation was then desperate the
b. CATION, where all the members Of the
is diplomatic body had congregsted.
xt Shanghai is safe. The protecting force
r is increasing in strength daily. but sun-
s. easiness is felt. &:
Fight Near Taku.
London, July "A dispatch from Ta-
ku,. dated June 90. says; 'Reconnoiter-
ing under Lieut. Commander KeyeA OF
the torpedo boat fame. captured and
- destroyed New City and the port. twelve
| mile !. from Taku, on the 2sth.
4 I'm second attack on the east arse
nal on the 9th the Russians we're re-
r. quired to retire for reinforcements. A
&c force of British, Germans and Amest-
~ cans then engaged the enemy, who. with
four guns, made determined resist
ance until the whole allied forces sup
ng ported the artillery and stormed tn,
arsenal. Fifty Chineee were killed AM
an the remainder retired. Lack Of cavAlf.
SITS prevented the capture of the Who'll
wn. force. As soon as the allies occupied tn
Oh arsenal 1900 imperial troops made
flank attack. but the British and Rua
ON eians soon drove them back. The caRu
der alties: British, Ave killed and twents
ned lone wounded; Americans. one wounded
Germane, two killed and Ave wounded
~, Russians, seventeen killed and wount
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