Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-09-03
ATROClTY OF RUSSIANS.
Make Peaceful, UnoHeodng Chinese, Targets
for RIfemen.
Bnyonet children aud Drown Old
Men AWFUL Blot on CIV
illZOd Nations,

Taku, Aug 80. via Shanghai Sept
3.-The soldiers are having fine sport
I'm using natives who creep back to their
homes or attempt 10 work In the fields
as targets The sight OF farmer lying
where he was shot. with q basket Of
grain or armfuls OF other produce near
| by. is quite common The Russians
are the chief actors In this style OF
! conquest, but the French are remark
! ably conspicuous. considering their
| small numbers. The Indian troops and
| the japanese are participants only
/ when beyond the ken OF their officers,
From the beginning the conduct OF
/ the Russians has been a blot on the
| campaign The recital OF notorious
/ facts speaks more forciby than could
any adjectiyos. When entering Pekin
correspondents OF the Associated Press
/ saw Cossacks smash down Chinese wo-
men with the butts OF their guns and
pound their heads until they were dead
/ The Cossacks would pick up children
| barely old enough To- walk, hold them
| by the ankles and beat out their brains
on the payements. Russian officers
looked on without protest
GEN. CHAFFEE CALLED IT MUIR
DER.
While Gen. Chafee was watering his
horse at stream under the wall OF
! Tung Chow. the Russians found "A fee
bic old man hidden In the mud. except
| his nose. and dragged him oud by the
queue. shouting gleefuly They inn
I paled him on their bayonets. Cen
Chanee remarked That Is not war.
1t is brutal murder
American officers at Taku, days after
the fighting was finished saw Russians
| bayonet children and throw old men
into the river clubbing them 20 death
when they tried 10 swim. The Russians
killed women who knelt before them
and begged for mercy.
Everybody was disposed TO be friend
~ toward the Russians in the early
days Of the lighting at Tien Tsin be-
cause OF their bravery but such incl
dents as the foregoing have been so
prominent a feature VI the campaign
that no one who Is supposed TO report
important facts can ignore them. They
are so numerous as to compel the con-
ClusiOn that they are not isolated epi-
sodes but the ordinary practices Of
Russian methods of warfare.
The Russians on the walls Of pekin
shot al every Chnaman with
In range outside. A correspondent Of
the Associated Press found many new
killed in the fields outside Of the Rus
sian section Of the wall Some OF the
bodies We're those Of women and none
seemed to be bodies Of combatants.
Coolies we're killed while trotting along
the roads with their loads and farmers
when trying 10 gather In their grain.
NOT A SOUL SPARED
Yokohama Aug. Is, Via Portland,
Sept. 2-The Kobe Herald OF August
IAN says Russia is pouring tens OF
thousands OF Cossacks from the north
into Manchuria and reports say no hui
man soul Is being spared and a wide
open track Is being made as the troops
press forward. They the nevertheless
meeting some opposition en- route. as
the entire Chinese population come out
against them
Refugees continue 10 flock to Vladi-
vostock from the interior and steamers
are leaving fully laden with them.
on the 9Th twelve priests took passage
on the Nama Shire Maru, and Il is ex-
pected Tor some time to come all vessels
leaving VIII be loaded with refugees.