The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-07-27
UNCLE SANS
FAITH FAILED
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are still with me; also came two officers
of H. NJ s. Harfuer, who had come down
from Ten Tsin TOO late to get TO any
flag ship. AS 1 was coming down the
river at a. NJ, an English torpedo
boat towing Chinese boat prize-I had
no small boat to make a landing so /
sent the launch TO run her line ashore,
for which thanks have been. returned.
1 have taken on board and have had
surgical attendance for the following:
A japanese soldier with gunshot wound;
a Chinese coolie found close 70 the ship
with arm torn of by fragment Of shell,
"a Russian soldier with wound in the
hand
THE place is deserted by everyone; no
trains, no telegrapfic communication on
shore, but had phone from Mr.. Pot
tergili, who reports all quiet since first
disturbance
81 know nothing Of the fight except
tnat the forts were taken 1 feel a nat
ural regret. shared, no doubt, by the Of
ficers, that duty and orders prevented
the old Monocacy from giving her an
cient smooth bores a last chance.
Very respectfully.
IF. NJ WISE,
Commander .. s. N, Commanding
THE MISERIES OF LEGATIoNERs
San Francisco, Cal, July 24-Shang Hal
and Yokohama newspapers received by
the American-Maru give some interest
ing facts regarding the situation in
China and Japan. OF the position of the
foreign colony in the British legation, the
Iapan Mail of Yokohama says:
This is a time when to live in Pekin
at all is to suffer terribly from heat.
With 500 foreigners. including many wom-
en- and children, crowded in the British
legation, and exposed to the constant rife
fire of the Chinese. the misery must be
great. The walls are high and thick and
the defenders must have been forced to
erect stagings on the inner side, on which
rifiemen could stand. If the Chinese used
artillery the gunners would have TO ex-
pose themselves to rifle fire at short
range, and this, with the number of good
shots among the marines, would be at
tended with very severe losses. The gun
ners could not take up a distant position
and lombard the buildings effectively
without destroying much of their own
property. The provision question is the
worst. There are no ice plants in the
foreign legations and they have beeL ac-
customed 10 depending upon the Chinese
markets for their daily supplies of beef
and mutton. A certain quantity of pre-
served provisions was doubtless in stock
in the Hotel de Pekin. but nothing to
feed so large a number as 500
THE japanese minister at Pekin at
tempted to communicate with Tien Tsin
after railway Communication was ended
He engaged japanese who speaks
Chinese fuently, dressed him in Chinese
clothes and hoped he would escape mo-
lestation. The Boxers. however, detected
his masquerade, beat him severely and
would have murdered him had he not
into swamp, where he remained
hidden for several hours in water, only
his nose being above the surface. He
finally reached Tien Tsin in a terrible
plight.
1.-The troubles in China threaten to
bring on financial panic in Japan.
China has gradually become the greatest
field for Japanese trade enterprise and
bound to bear heavily on many large
Japanese firms. These firms are repre-
sented by big establishments In Tien Tsin
and elsewhere, and instructions have been
sent TO the stats there to close up and
return to japan when the journey is