The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-07-26

were put to death after the most horrl-
BILE fortunes"
LONDON, July 15.-The Shanghai
correspondent of the Daily Mail says:
Il can positively assert that the Chi
nese authorities had the dreadful news
from Picking a week ago, and that
Sheng knew ali the foreigners in Pc
! king were dead when he asked the Am
erican Consul to cable Washington a
proposal to deliver the foreigners in
safety at Tientsin on condition that the
allies would suspend their operations
TO the north of Peking."
SHANGHAI, July 16.-There are no
further details of the awful tragedy in
| Picking. The Chinese authorities, hav-
| ing given the information, are now
alarmed at the effect 1t has produced,
and are attempting to deny and mini
mize with the object of gaining time.
! The most serious development of the
! situation is from Chinese official
sources, which indicates that the Box
ers have been advised to come South.
| They intend to make Ching Hang-Po,
at the head of the Grand Canal. the
objective point of five regiments who
have started from that place with the
This is likely to be the beginning of a
| movement directed against the foreign
ers in the Central South.
An imperial edict, dated July 3, has
been received by the viceroys and gov
ernors ordering them to begin war
against the foreigners without delay,
and declaring that officers of all ranks
who refuse to obey will be summarily
executed.
The edict continues:
1--WE are perfectly aware that the
fighting forces are few in your provin-
ces; therefore we have chosen a picked
body of patriots and imperial troops
wi 70 r
ance."
WASHINGTON, July 16.-An unoffi-
cial report has come to the attention Of
the Chinese officials here to the effect
that 5000 Chinese officials at Picking
petitioned Prince Tuan to protect the
foreigners, whereupon Prince Tuan or
dered all those who united in the petit
ton to be killed.
NEW YORK, July ia Sun cable
from London says: Another Shanghai
dispatch says: OF all the legations the
American had the greatest proportion
of women, especially after the arrival
of the American missionaries who had
taken refuge there. Hence it is known
that the women's legation was among
the first destroyed. When the women
were dOmiciled at the British legation.
American sailors supposedly marines
of the Oregon, missionaries and civil
ians generally, composed the inner
guard, Germans, Russians and Japan
csc doing the outpost work, at which
the Germans were especially active.
Every adult male bore arms. The
women did nursing and cooking, even
assisting in preparing the troops mess.
After the final sortie by the legation
troops, the attack by the Chinese was
renewed with doubled fury. The fight
ing was hand to hand. Foreigners who
had been driven back, barricaded the
windows, but the Boxers were able to
reach low roof, where a few sailors
met them and hurled many of them off.
Some of the sailors dropped to the
ground and stood with their backs to
the wall standing off the Chinese.
In the midst of the melee Prince
Tuan's artillery opened their awful fire.
By this time the Boxers had not yet
secured any white prisoners, which so
enraged them that they attacked a
house opposite the legation, where ma
tive Christians had taken refuge These
We're dragged forth and subjected to
every brutality This and other build
ings were burned.
The streets that night swarmed with
Boxers, smeared with blood and stained
with powder. They carried torches
and CHASTITY trophies of the days work.
At the time of the final massacre the
unfOrtunates who had escaped death in
battle, and who had been forced back
into buildings, were driven from room
to room by crowds of yelling, maniac
Boxers. Outrages perpetrated here for
the time on women and children not
killed by their protectors were awful.
Then heavy bombardment began and
outragers and outraged alike, were
slain.