The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-31


petition the tsung-l-yamen for vege-
tables. some said they would rather
Istarve than take help from that quarter
only sufficient for one day. When more
was asked tor, the reply was this could
not be furnished. because a state of war
existed in Pekln.
The tsung-l-yamen piaearded a proc
lamation exhorting the people to kin al
foreigners. because the latter had made
war on China in attacking the forts az
Taku.
The legations were fiercely attacked
from July Il e .. At the latter date
nominal truce was agreed to and extend
ed to August 8. although the Chinese re-
peatedly violated it. There was consider
able rife fire from August 8 TO August
II. and then the Chinese mounted smooth
bores The mainstay OF the foreigners
was an old gun used. by the British tn
1850. which was found IN a junk shOp by
Mitchell the American gunner THIS was
mounted on Russian carriage found BY
an italian. Ammunition was fitted to #
and it was christened The international
gun
The foreigners remarked that the relief
had been long delayed but they insisted
that they had never despaired OF the out
come. The Chinese are said 70 admit
that they lost s.c00 killed during the siege.
/ The foreigners did not waste their am
munition. shooting only when target
was in evidesce. The Chinese method on
the other hazd. was a continuous heavy
and indiscriminate fire. The enemy
would advance 10 the barrieades at
night, creeping up with their arms hilled
with bricks, and III the morning the for
eigners would fined new wall few feet
closer. Finally the barbados came 50
close that talking could be distolnctly
heard.
During the last two nights the Chinese
officers urged their men to charge the
foreigners and exterminate them before
the international forces could arrive.
The Chinese soldiery replied that they
could, not withstand the bayenets. On
the night before the relief they fred sew
eral thousand rounds, the foreigners re-
plying with two shots only. The Chinese
artillery and soldiers IN Pekin were ap-
psrently much inferior to those encoun-
tered IN the fighting al Tien Tsin.
The relief Of Pekin was a notable
achievement. chiefly for the forced
march OF four independent armies over
a single difficult road and in siekenlng
weather The opposition offered by the
Chinese dwindled steadily each day Hntil
the relieving columns were in front OF
Pekin. The defense Of the city. eonsid-
ering the possibilities Of the case, was
exceedingly weak. The japanese are still
hammering away at the wall OF the
northeast section. which has not yet
been entered. Probably the Chinese con-
centrated their forces there, thIs giving
the Americans and English a compare
lively easy position.
The Americans advanced along the left
canal under cover. the Fourteenth infan-
try leading, with the Ninth infantry and
the marines following. From a Hill Cap
tain Reilly shelied a pag0da over the
Chehua gate until the infantry got close
in The Fourteenth regiment was ex-
tended under cover before the wan. ahouG
300 yards away, when f company scaled
the corner near the gate. under the fire
OF sharpsho0terE. Lieutenant Gohn plant
ed the regimentsI flag The regiment
then crowded with the Russians through
the gate unopposed. but every side %
the streets leading 70 the Tartar wal.
along which the soldiers passed, Was
swept BY rife fires from the wal TIE
compa MES dashed across the streets ia
single file The British. entering sbah3
gaze, about the middle q The east val
we're nearer the legations and able 70 ea-
ter first
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worst l. was a terrible strain. Tbs
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sometimes above tina; figure. TIE eoun-
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