The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-08

looked at TINS WITH an angry 1TOWn LII
Pinghung arrived and was appointed to
assist Jung Lu in commanding the
troops. Hsu Chingcheng and Yuan
Chang, two ministers of the Tsung Ii
Yamen, were caught. 1 was told that
one day they had an audience with the
empress dowager and the emperor
When Hsu Chingcheng was just going
away the emperor said to him, You
know the condition between China and
foreign countries; how can we resist so
many nations troops?' Prince Tuan S
party heard and hated him very much,
Yuan Chang, as l was told had pre-
scented to her majesty suggestion, pray
ing her not to beseige the legations.
On the third day the two ministers
were beheaded. On the fourth day an
other telegram from the American con-
sui at Chifu said that the admirals of
all nations were anxious to know the
conditions of the siege. On the fifth
day the houses of the two ministers
were plundered by the soldiers of Jung
Lu and Tung Flu Hsiang. On the sixth
day it was reported that England would
promise that the seven nations would
inflict no trouble upon China Germany
was very angry for the death of her
ambassador. Russia was eager for get
ting land from China; France allied
with Russia; Japan was watching for
Russia
'On the ninth day an imperial decree
said that large numbers of Christians
in Paotihsian were excused, for they
had no intention of opposing the gov
ernment. Another decree said that for
eign ministers and merchants We're not
/ concerned In warfare, and ordered Jung
Lu to select good officers to escort them
to lien Tsin, the date should be liked
by themselves; should any bad people
give trouble to them he should be liza
bic to severe punishment
"On the tenth day it was reported
that few thousand Russian soldiers
were defeated by the Tartar general,
Shou Shan, but now the Russians &C.
cupied most of the Manchurian terri
tories. In the midnight of the eleventh
the Tsung Ii Yamen wanted me to go
to Prince Chuang's house, SO I put on
my official coats; I doubted very much,
because feared that he would kill me;
[ could not but go.
"On the twelfth day, when [ arrived
there I found that several of my
friends had already been there, and 1
knew that several letters were repre-
scented to Prince Chung by a Chinese,
who was trusted by foreigners to de-
liver them to Tientsin. Prince Chuang
and Duke Ian treated us in a frienly
way for they now understood that peo-
pie who knew foreign language were
also useful to them.
"On the eighteenth day it was report
ed that Yu Lu had been killed in the
battle; Ma Yu Kun was wounded and
Lung Ching disappeared. The soldiers
of Jung Lu and Tung Flu Hsiang
searched for horses and carts every
where. A man told me that Lii Ping
Heng commanded 10000 soldiers, who
dispersed before they met foreign
troops; he felt extremely ashamed and
committed suicide. Some people es-
capped from Tung Chow said foreign
soldiers were not many, but the Chinese
soldiers did not fight at all.
ION the twentieth day. hearing the
sound of firing cannons and guns,
which continued around the city, peo-
pie knew that foreign troops had ar
rived; so they were in state of great
excitement: now they hid themselves
so as to avoid flying bullets. The en-
press dowager escaped and Prince
Ching knew the city would not be de-
Tended and distributed flags of truce
to the soldiers and ordered them to put
them on the city walls"