The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-07-04
AWFUL SCENES IN PEK|N
Heads Of Captured Legation
Guards Carried About
Streets on Spears.
WILD EzcEssBs INDUCED
ZEALOTS CHANT "DEATH 10 THE
FOREIGN DETILS.o
Foreigners In Terrible plight
Making Last Stand In the Buildings
ofthe British LrgatiOn--Thc Women
Starving-Garrison short of Ammu-
nition-.Prince TuaM Declares That
Not n Foreigner Shall Escape.
Not n Foreigner Shall Escape.

London, July 4, 2:30 a. m.-Couriers
ernment of the southern viceroys from
their agents in Pekin, give vivid, but
fragmentary pictures of what is being
enacted in the capital These couriers
seemingly left Pekin a day or two later
than the messenger of Sir Robert Hart,
the inspector general of customs, who
started on the night of June "a. They
report that the heads of some OF the
captured legation guards were being
borne through the streets at the top OF
spears, followed by zealots, chanting
''Tapi Yang Kuei Use; Tapi, Tapi,'
C'Kill the foreign devils; kill, kill.D
The city's millions have been reused
to patriotic fervor, breaking out into
the widest excesses, while over half the
city could be heard fighting around the
legations.
Sir Robert Hart's runner, who was in
terviewed by the correspondent of the
Express at Shanghai, supplements the
tragic sentences of the dispatch he bore
by narrative of some things he saw.
He says the foreigners were making
last stand in the extensive buildings
and enclosures of the British legation.
They had many dead and wounded.
Among them were some women and
children. All We're short of food even
of the commonest necessaries. The Wo-
men were starving as they gave part
of their small allowance to the children.
The foreigners, nevertheless, were hold
ing out under a terrific fire, upheld by
"a boI,rIv aypapto fioY1 of ra1ief
They knew they would not be aban-
doned and that the armies of their gov
ernments were advancing. Sometimes
they thought they could hear artillery
in action beyond the waal They were
unable to return the fire of the Chinese
except at moments when an assault
seemed imminent Then the machine
guns and repeating rifles tore the
storming parties to pieces. The messen-
ger expressed the belief that it would
be impossible for the foreigners to re-
sist much longer as the Chinese We're
preparing to batter down the walls Of
the courtyard and their ammunition
was running low.
Orders We're given by Prince Tuan,
the messenger says, that, since some
had been killed, not one other foreigner
should be left alive. The Chinese SOL
diers were exhorted to sacrifice their
lives without hesitation if by so doing
they could help exterminate the Wang
Kuei TIE" Extreme precautions had
been taken to prevent the foreigners
from communicating with any one out
side the city and a number of runners
who had been sent out We're killed by
the Chinese This messenger succeeded
In getting through by smearing his face
and clothes with blood and joining in
the outcries against the devils" He !
passed the remains Of foreigners of Ad- |
miral Seymour's force who had been |
killed between Lang Fang and Lo Flu. |
Their bodies had been cut to pieces and |
their heads were carried at the ends of
bamboos.
A large army of Manchu Chinese i'm |
perial troops with seventy guns is re- /
ported to be advancing in the direction !
of Tien Tsin. Reliance Is placed in |
Shanghai on most of the statements
made by the messenger, as he is known
to be faithful to the foreigners.