Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-04
LIKE G)RDON'S CASE.
When Relief Reaches the Besieged
Ministers It May Be Too
Late.
Indications Are That the Diplomats
Have Been Disposed Of by
the Boxers.
Latest News Was That They Were
Fighting For Their Lives
at Pekin.

London, July 4.-rhe couriers who
are arriving ut the seats. of govern
mentof. the southern viceroys in China
from theiragents in Picking give vivid.
but fragmentary pictures OF what is.
hein genacted ut the capital. These
couriers seemingly left Picking n day.
or two later that the messenger of Sir
Robert Hart, the Inspector general OF
customs. who started on the night of
June "a. They report that be heads
of some of the captured legation guards
We're being borne through the streets
ut TIL etop of spears, followed by zeal.
isots chanting 'rapi yang llnsg tse; tap.
tap. tIlill the foreign devils; Kill.
kill, The city's millions have been.
reused TO patriotic feryer. breaking out
into the widest excuses. while over
half the city could be heard fighting
uronud the legations.
Foreigners Making Brave Fight.
Sir Robert Harris runner. who was
! Interviewed by the spondent OF
|! The Express at Shanghai. supplement-
led the tragic sentences of the dispatch
he bore by narrative of some things
ilhe saw. He says the foreigners We're
making a last stand in the extensive
lsbnililngs and enclosures of the British
legation They had many dead ard
| wounded. Among them We're some wo-
men and children All We're short of
/ food. even of: the commoneSt necessa-
4 ries. The women We're starving. as
4 they gave a part of their small allow
1 ance to the children. The foreigners.
5neverthelasS. We're holding out nnder
4 a terrible fire. upheld by the hourly
4 5expectationsof3rel
Hoping for Relief in Vain.
They knew they would ont be aban-
j doued. and that til earmies of their
y governments We're advancin. Some
i times they thought hey could hear ar
.Etillery in action beyond the wall They
We're unable to return the fire of the
4 Chinese. eXepct III moments when an
4 assault seemed imminent Then the
4 machine guns and repeating rifles tore
4 the storming parties to pieces. The
4 messenger expressed the belief that ii
i would he impossible for the foreigners
a to resist muchlonger, as the Chinese
A were preparing 10 batter down the
Il wallis of the courtyard and the am.
munition OF the defenders was running
law.
Tuan Gives Orders for NIns.ncres.
4 Orders Were given by Prince Tuan
q the messenger says, that sipte some
lad been killed not one other for
q eigner should be alive. The Chimes,
soldiers We're eShortel to sacrifice
, their lives without hesitation if by Sc
doing they could help eXterminate the
Z wang kuei tse.' Extreme precauton.
had been taken to prevent the foreign
ars from communicating with any ont
outside the city, Il number of run
ners who had been sent out were
killed by the Chinese. This messenger
= succeeded in getting through bys smear
ing his face aud clothes with blood
and Joining in the outcrics against III,
devils.
Seyinonr's Dead Cut to Pieces.
He passed the remains of foreign
ers of Admiral Seylnour's force wh'
had been killed between Lang Fan!
and 10 Flu. Their bodies had beef
cut to pieces, and their heads wer
carried at the ends of bamboos. !.
large army Of AIancbu Chinese i'm
perial troops. With twenty guns. is re
ported to be advancing in the direction
-of TienTsin. Reliance is placed il
!. Shanghai on most Of the statement
made by the nlessenger.as he is know
Il, to be faithful to the foreigners.