The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-16
Little Doubt Now as to the Horrible Fate OF
the Foreign Legations
at Peking.
Governor of Shan Tung Confirms the Early
Reports of the Slaughter of Foreign
ers by the Boxers.

SHANGHAI, July 15-An official tele
gram was received tonight from the gov
ernor Of Shan Tung stating that breach
was made in the wall of the British le-
cation at Peking, after gallant defense
and when all the ammunition had gwen
out all foreigners We're killed.
THIS IS DIFFERENT.
BRUSSELS, July 15.-The minister of
foreign affairs, NJ. de Favoi, has received
an official dispatch from Shanghai, dated
Saturday, July IA. saying:
Sheng Gao tai of Shanghai communi-
Gates the following from the governor
of Shan Tuhg, dated July Z:
1.-THE European troops defending the
legations made a sortie, killing 200 sol
ders Of Gen. Tung Fuh Slang. The Box
ers have been unable to take the Iega-
tions but the situation is very critical
Shen considers the situation dangerous.
LONDON GIVES UP HOPE.
LONDON, July 10 $3.50 a. M 1T seems
impossible to entertain any longer the
least doubt as to the fate of the Euro
peans in Peking. The Associated Press
learns that Lady Hart, wife of Sir Rob
ert Hart director of Chinese imperial
maritime customs on July received the
following telegram from her husband:
Our people, including the women, are
in the legations. Prepare to hear the
worst"
The European governments here re-
Ceived from their representatives at
Shanghai a dispatch from the governor
of Shan Tung, dated July Z, reporting
that the European troops nade a sortie
from Peking and killed 200 of Gen. Lung
Fuh Siangs forces, and that the Boxers
were mounting guns to make a breach in
the defenses
Under date Of July 12 the governor of
Shan Tung wires as follows:
Native soldiers and Boxers have been
attacking the legations for some hours,
but have not yet effected an entrance
They are now all bombarding with large
cannon to make breach for a heavy
onslaught I fear that all the minister's
and the government as well are in great
danger. The government Is intensely
anxious"
Finally came the news from Shanghai
that a breach had been made and the
foreigners killed. All the dates prob
ably refer TO much earlier period, but
the presumption is that the successive
dispatches give an outline of what has
happened. The Europeans, having reach
ed the end of their resources, made a
desperate sortie and then bravely met
their fate. The details of the horrible
story win probably never be known.
Admiral Seymour's dispatch gives the
latest news regarding the situation at
Tien Tsin.
ALLIES LACKED CAVALRY
kilograms to the Associated Press show
that the operations on July were
brilliant success. The Japanese cavalry
and mobile mounted battery did splen-
did work. it was unfortunate that the
allies did not have more cavalry to pur-
sue the flying enemy. Four hundred
Chinese were killed and six guns cap
tured. AT noon the settlements were
again viciously shelled from the native
city, and the hospitals and other build
ings were repeatedly hit. The moral eff
feet of the successes of the allied forces
upon the Chinese is believed to be very
great.
Gen. Gazlee and staff, with a force Of
Punjaub infantry, arrived yesterday at
Hong Kong, and proceeded for Taku.
FRANCE TALKS OF VENGEANCE.
The French consul at Shanghai, at
reception Saturday, made an impassioned
speech He said
The history of the world can show no
parallel to such a situation, and If the
Rbominable crime, the mere thought of
which makes us shudder has been perpe-
trated, then it is our duty to see that
swift and summary punishment shall fall
upon the per1idious nation which COM
mitted it. Our government is fully aware
Of the danger in which we are placed,
and I can assure you we are doing all
In our power to avenge the noble victims
Of Chinese barbarism."
AMERICANS AT SHANGHAI MEET.
Following is the text of an appeal Of
Americans in China, assembled in mass
meeting at Shanghai, to their fellow citi-
Eens at home:
Urge the government to send adequate
forces TO act at once in concert with
the other powers. At present the Amer
lean forces are quite disproportionate to
the interests involved. Our commercial
Interests in the northern provinces are
prominent, and we consider it A hunili-
ating policy to entrust to other powers
the chief task, that of protecting Ameri-
cans.
'Anti-foreign outrages are multiplying
daily. Officials and missionaries are mas
sacred. The fate of the ministers and
their families in Peking is not known
but general massacre is apprehended
Wholesale massacres of native Christians
continue. The whole country is terror
iZed. Trade is paralyzed.
The speedy restoration of order and
retribution are duties pressing upon all
civilized powers. The consequences of
delay will be disastrous. Not only 30
foreign lives and n"--perty placed in
3eopardy' o"t tne loss of influence WIFI
3, pc .calculable.
Give no credenee to statements of the
situation sent by the Chinese government
to its ministers abroad. The present out
RACES are the result of the weak ara vac
Hating policy Of the powers in the past