The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-11
POWERS MAY MAKE OF
CHINA A SECOND EGYPT
Belief Growing That Troops Will Never Leave the
Capital Once They Arrive There.
Combined Forces With Captain McCalla Start for Pekn
Repairing Railway En- Route.

opened fire upon the unfortunate occu-
pants, using both rifles and wooden
cannon. The engineers returned the
fire effectively and the party landed.
One woman and three men got separ-
ated from the main body. They We're
brutally killed. The survivors formed
a square, with those able to bear krms
outside and the women inside. anG
made off toward Tien Tsin. They trav-
eled three and a half days, lighting
all the way. More than 1000 cartridges.
! were expended and ammunition was
running short. They estimated that
they killed at least a hundred Boxers.
The men behaved like heroes. carry
ing the women and children. One wo-
man of the party was close to ma
/ teFnity.
Twelve miles from Tien Tsin three
| men disappeared and were murdered.
! The survivors eventually met the res
! cue party, and much exhausted they
were escorted to Tien Tsin.
Says Government is Indifferent
/ Sir Claude Macdonald. British min
! hster at Pekin, sent the following tele-
gram to Shanghai on June z:
The movement against the for
eigners, which has been allowed to grow
TO such an extent, has resulted in the
| burning of railway statiOns1and in the
interruption of railway communication
for five days. The British missionaries
and several foreign missionaries have
/ been murdered in the district near Pc
Kin In the country round, numbers
OF converts have been murdered, and
chapels have been pillaged and de-
strOyed, while in the capital itself the
British missionaries have been obliged
TO leave their houses and to take ref
uge at the legation, which is defended
by seventy-five marines.
The Chinese government is affected
by these events so far as TO send high
omclals to parley with the Boxers, but
1t does not show any intention of sum-
marily suppressing them. Probably it
still has power to do So but the throne
is still strongly Influenced by sym
patty with the movement, and the
spirit Of the troops is doubtful. All
Is well up to the present"
Cossacks Ready On Frontier.
A special dispatch from st. Peters
burg, dated Saturday, June Q. SAYS:
have learned from an absolutely
reliable source that minute dispatches
nave been sent to the commanders of
the Russian troops in Manchuria, di-
recting them to prepare three regi-
mentS Of COssacks on the Chinese
frontier to be in readiness to enter
on the day orders are received"
Denies Dowager Aids Orders.
The Chinese minister at London, Io
Furg Ii, when shown the latest dis
patches from Tien Tsin, authorized his
secretary to make the following state
ment:
1T is all nonsense to believe that the
empress is encouraging the Boxers.
She is doing all she can to calm them.
How can the Chinese government SUD-
port rebellion when China alone SUI
fers? We have already lost property
worth &1O,OOO,OOO- The empress back
Of the Boxers! It is absurd
The secretary expressed the opinion
that the Boxers numbered less than
100000 Of the population.
Christians Are Burned Alive.
The Pel1in correspondent of the
Times, telegraphing Sunday, says:
The empress dOwageT and emperor
returned to Pekin yesterday. escorted
by soldiers under Tung Fuh Slang.
The American mission buildings at
Tung Chau, twelve miles from Pekin.
which were abandoned by the mis-
sionaries, have been looted and burned
by the Chinese soldiers who were sent
to protect them. Within three DAYS
seventy-five native Christians, well
known men who had been trained for
years by American missionaries, have
been massacred near Tung Chau. Many
Of them were burned alive.
"The intimidation of Christians con-
tinues within Pekin itself Most OF
the mission compounds are closed and
the missionaries are being collected IN
der the protection of the legation
guards. ReinfOrcements for all the
guards are coming"
Missionaries Await Relief.
A dispatch to the Associated Press
from Pekin, under date of June 9, says:
THE situation is growing steadily
more alarming. The missionary com
pounds were all abandoned yesterday
evening. Forty American and English
are gathered at the Amer
lean Methodist mission, surrounded bY
300 native pupils, whom it was imDos-
sible to send to their homes. They are
waiting with q few revOlvers and
guarded by ten American marines for
reinfOreements to take them to the
coast. A missionary who had returned
from the country to the east says the
pOpulace are asserting that they must
have a new emperor"