Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-17
Rslisf Of the Bssiegsd Foreigners
Announced and Omcially Con-
@ armsd This Afternoon
Chinese Troops Thought ts Have
Gone 70 shen 81 With the
Empress

.
Empress
Probable Cause Of Collapse Of Chi,
nsse Rssistancs History Of
Pekin Siege.
J. London, Aug. \. The allies entered
Pekin without fighting, the legations
were relieved and the foreigners liber-
lted.
THE foregoing. received from the Ger
man consul at Shanghai. was given out
~ the Berlin foreign office at 1 p. m.
Shanghai, Aug. Iii Hung Chang
has received dispatch announcing
that the allied forces entered Pekin on
Wednesday. the 18th, without oppost-
tion. British troops will land tomorrow.
Al, quiet here and in the Yang Use val
ley.
London. Aug. IA special from
Shanghai says:
.sThe allies entered Pekin on the
/, 18th. 1t is believed the Yuan Shl
Kais troops have gone thence to
s3hen sito protect the empress, Who,
according to reports received by lo-
cal officials here. is with the Tuan
B imperial household. The bulk OF the
army and Boxers left Pekin on the
eth for Psian-Fu.''
Why the Chinese Failed.
London, Aug. 1.-THE collapse Of the
Chinese resistance is explained in the.
dispatches from Shanghai as being due
10 the failure Of the Chinese to flood the
country below Tung Chow. The earth
works connected with the dam at Pei
+ Ho were unfinished aud the canal at
4 Tung Chow full of water, facilitating
boat transport when the allies arrived
there.
Signals between the allies and lega-
TONERS holding part OF the wall at Pc
Kin were exchanged during the morning
OF the 18th.
The Earlier Kumors.
London, Aug ia cablegram to
Vienna from Hong Kong. announces the
capture of Pekin, but The Austrian gov
ernment, like other European powers. is
still without confirmation Of this re-
port.
An official telegram, dated Taku, Aug.
il. has been received at Rome which
! asserts that the attack on Pekin began
Monday, that Sir Claude Macdonald
the British minister. has opened com
nunication with the relieving force and
that the allies have established ti1eil
headquarters at Tung Chou.
Chinese officlafs in Shanghai are re
4 ported as admitting that the allies in.
fiicted heavy defeat on the Chinese
imperial troops around Tung Chow
sunday and then marched direct t
Pekin.
This, if true, carries the Japanese Of
fetal sadvices announcing the capture o
Tung Chow cne step farther.
The western powers. according to
dispatch to the Daily Express fron
Kobe. have accepted the proposals for
mulated by Japan for arranging al
armistice, dependent upon the immedi
ate delivery OF the foreign legations I
the allies. or the granting of permissiol
to guard the legations.
Upon these bases, the correspondent
y says, Japan has already begun to nego
e tiate.
The concensus Of opinion expresse
Is by the morning papers tends to the be
lief that the legations are now SAT
with the allies.
1t is reported in a dispatch frol
ufr,uno
department has received dispatc
saying that Sir Robert Hart. directe
general OF the Chinese imperial mar
time customs, accompanied by his stat
has left Pekin under Chinese escor
and that cruiser will be sent to met
him on his reaching the coast.
Describing the capture of Ho 81 w
special dispatch says that the heat
gear Of the Americans was quite insu
ficisnt for the awful heat, and that Il
consequences were dsreful.
Shanghai dispatches declare that u
Chinese had intended to make fin
attack upon the legations last Sunda
but whether the plan was carried o.
Is not known there.
From the same place comes the stat
ment that Vice Admiral Seymour al
s 6fl&. Gen. 5STe6u fIiSASe JUlIiSO III "
1rotast against the withdrawal OF q
British troops. Ii
All the morning papers which cor
= ment on the subject appeal to Lo
salisbury not to withdraw them. al
ddlate upon the serious results Of su
action to British prestige.
American negotiations looking to
cessation OF hostilities also receive co
siderable attention, favorable and OF
erwise. but all the editorials agree tn
Is TOO precipitate withdrawal from F
Kin after the delivery OF the legatio
would have q bad effect upon the Cl
nese minds
AroRY OF THE PEKIN TRACED
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