Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-22
IS EMPRESS CAPTURED?
Report That Japanese Troops
Surround Her.
TAKING OF THE CITY OF PBKING.
Americans Planted Stars and Stripes
on East WalI-Japanese Lose the
Most Men-Indian Troops Make n
Good Showing.

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 Peking with treasure amounting to
oO,OoOOOO taels and that she is sur
rounded by Japanese cavalry"
In the news received direct from Chi
ma 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 ut the treaty ports and
are thence faithfully transmitted to the
European capitals. Those representing
the court as having left Peking are of
exclusive Chinese origin. According to
them their mnjesties are well on their
way to Hsian-fu, about 500 miles inland.
If the Chinese government is at Hsan-
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
since the allies reached Peking. 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-tsn has been
cut. The position of the allies is I'M
certain, and a large body of Chinese
troops has taken the field"
Under date of Thursday last n Tien-
tsin dispatch says:
"About 5000 Chinese troops which
are reported to have been at Sung-liu-
ching left today for Pe-tsan, and 1000
more Chinese troops have gone toward
Tung-chow."
Americans Raised Stars and Stripes.
A special dispatch dated Peking, Aug.
IA, via Chefu, Aug. 81, says:
1.-THE American and Russian flags were
planted on the east wall of Peking 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-fve persons We're killed and 1G0
wounded.
"rhe japanese began the battle before
daylight. and they are still fighting
about the north wall, where n part of the
Chinese are defending the imperial city.
The Japanese casualties have not yet
been ascertained The Russians had )
killed and - wounded. The Americans
and the British had n few wounded
1.-The plan was to make 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 cornfelds in the rain.
'The generals, however, alarmed Mt
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 . 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. Reily'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 its fig on the outer
wall, Musician Titus scaling the wall
with n 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."