Connecticut western news., 1900-08-23
ISEMPRESS CAPTURED?
Report That Japanese Troops
 Surround Her.
TAKING OF THE CITY OF PEKING.
Americans Planted Stars and Stripes on East waIl-Japnnese Lose the Most Men-Indinn Troops Make Good Showing.

London, Aug. 22.-The Paris Temps publishes a dispatch from Shanghai of yesterdays date saying it is reported there that the dowager empress fled from Picking with treasure amounting to 50,0O0,0 900 taels and that she is 'sur- rounded by Japanese cavalry"
 In the news received direct from Chi na this morning there is nothing to con
 firm the report that the dowager empress has been run to earth.
 Divers paragraphs as to the movements of the Chinese imperial family continue to be received at the treaty ports and are thence faithfully transmitted to the European capitals. Those representing the court as having left Picking are of exclusive Chinese origin. According to them their majesties are well on their way to Hsian-fu, about 500 miles inland.
 If the Chinese government is at Hsian- flu, there is no means of getting at it, ac- cording to the military men, without prolonged campaign and with an army as large as Lord Roberts to secure the bases of communications.
 Advices from the provincial capitals show that the attitude of the southern mandarins has been far more friendly since the allies reached Picking. Some of the magistrates have been issuing proclamations commanding the Chinese to attend to business, to avoid sedition and acknowledging that the invasion of the foreigners is justified.
 A Shanghai dispatch says: Yuan Shi Kai, the governor of Shangtung, is dead"
 A Shanghai dispatch of yesterdays date says:
 "The foreign officials here learn that the telegraph from Tien-tsin has been cut. The position of the allies Is un-
 certain, and a large body of Chinese troops has taken the field"
 Under date of Thursday last a Tien- tsin dispatch says:
 About 5000 Chinese troops which
 are reported to have been at Sung-liu-
 ching left today for Pei-tsan, and 2OOO
 more Chinese troops have gone toward Tung-chow."
 Americans Raised Stars and Stripes. A special dispatch dated Picking, Aug. 14, via Chefu, Aug. 21, says: "The American and Russian flags were planted on the east wall of Picking at II o'clock this morning. The Indian troops entered the British legation at l and the Americans at o'clock. "There was a joyful reception from the wall. The emaciated tenants could have lasted but little longer. They had only three days rations.
 "The Chinese had been attacking furi- ously for two days. Four thousand shells fell in the legation during the siege. Six ty-five persons were killed and 1G0 wounded.
 "The Japanese began the battle before daylight. and they are still fighting about the north wall, where a part of the Chinese are defending the imperial city. | The Japanese casualties have not yet been ascertained. The Russians had | killed and 12 wounded. The Americans | and the British had a few wounded. ''The plan was to make a general at- | tack tomorrow, and the troops were ar | irving at camp, five miles east, all night. | They were completely exhausted and | slept in the cornfields in the rain. "The generals. however, alarmed at | the sounds of heavy attack on the lega- | tions, pushed forward independently, the | British, Americans and French on the | left of the river and the Russians and Japanese on the right. Beginning at 2 o'clock this morning | the Japanese diverted the brunt of the | resistance to the northern city. their ar | tillery engaging the Chinese heavily | there.
 | "The Americans and British met with but little resistance until they entered the city, where there was street fight. ing. Reilly's battery attempted to breach | the inner wall. The troops finally en- tered the foreign settlement through the | canal.
 | Company E, Fourteenth United States | infantry, planted it's flag on the outer | wall, Musician Titus scaling the wal
 with a rope, by means of which the
 others climbed to the top.
 "The Chinese had continually violated
 the armistice. The food supply sent to
 the legations by the empress dowager
 was sufficient for one day"