Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-07-04
EMPEROR WILLIAM
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by smearng his face and clothes with
blood and joining in the outcries
against the devils" He passed the
remains of foreigners of Admiral Sey-
mour.s force. who had been killed be-
tween Lang Fang and Lo Fo. Their
bodies had been cut to pieces and their
heads We're carried at the ends of
bamboos.
! A large army of Manchu Chinese i'm
perial troops. with 20 guns is reported
to be advancing in the direction of
Tien Tsin.
! Reliance is placed in Shanghai on
most of the statements made by the
messenger. as he Is known to be faith
full to the foreigners.
| The consular body at Shanghai is of
the opinion that the food and ammuni-
ton of the beseged legation forces at
Pekin having become exhausted. they
must be dead or imprisoned and that it
would be futile to make a desperate eff
fort their relief without an adequate
force. 1t is regarded at Shanghai as APP
pallinE that nothing is being done for the
relief of the besiesed foreigners and that
they should be abandoned 10 a horrible
fate.
The inability of 1900 men-the latest cs-
innate of the number needed to be adj
NancedS expected by the statement
that the Chinese army between the Tien
'rSin and Pekin has been heavily rein
forced. that it has abundant artillery and
numer Gus cavalry. giving it large advan-
tageS over the allies. Recommending par
ties run a great hazard of being sur
rounded. captured and probably executed
by torture.
Severe lighting. according to vague re-
ports. continues around Tien Tsin.
Shanghai July According to the lat
Dol b.,
legations are at such extremities from
lack of provisions that the women who
escaped are pcrishing of starvation.
Prince Tuan is said to be publicly be
heading all the legation guards captured
by the Chinese.
London. July "A special dispatch
from Shanghai says Chinese reports are
current that two other foreign ministers
were murdered the same day as Baron
Won ketteer. From the same sources ii
is declared that the mission hospital at
M0ukkden has been destroyed by fire and
thar the native Christians have been mas
sacred. 1t is further asserted that the
foreigners fled to New Chwang.
London. July i-i.JJ 4. M.-The Shang-
hal correspondent of the Times telegraph
ing. Monday. says: The edict issued a
Pckin. June %. amounts to an open chal-
lenge to the powers ana practically de-
clares war. il commands the provinces
To enroll the Boxers and Troops to assist
to -xpcl the foreigners
\ special diSpatcn from Shanghai dated
July >. says tnat the Taotai of Shanghai
notified the Chinese neWSpa perS that. be-
ginning june y. no notice will be taken |
of DEGREES of The So-caled imperial GOV
eminent as Prince Tuan had seized the |
power on that day.
The Times St Petersburg correspondent !
says that ON June 81 the grand stam o; I
the Russian army estimate the Chinese |
army to number l. 152. 800 men. He also |
says that about gno.o,0 Mausers have beer |
imported within the last three years
The Daily Mail. this morning. publishes |
an interview had with an Englshman |
who has just returned from China. who |
says that United States Mh4}ster Conger |
had with him at Pekin hissWife. her sis |
ter. two nieces, two other American |
ladies and a number of American visi- |
tors. with Secretary of Legation .Seuires /
his wife ami seven or eight > children |
Many other women and children. he says, |
were also with the besiesed members OF |
the legations. |