Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-10-13
RUSSIAN BARBAR-
ITY TO CHINESE
Killing the Helpless. Regardless
ofAge and Sex-Inhuman
Cruelty.
MORE TROUBLE IS IMMINENT
The Allies Except Americans TO
March Against Pao Ting
on The Twelfth.
ACTIVITY OF THE TAeALos

Correspondence of associated press. J
Tung Chow. Aug. 30.-It is eighty
miles by river from Tien Tsin to this
place and now two weeks after the
allied forces marched through, the
signs Of war are more apparent than
at first. Posts have been stationed al
intervals of few miles and troops
have completed the work of desola-
ton.
Villages that were only partially
burned are now utterly destroyed as
they were found to be hiding places
for snipers, who attacked single trav-
elers and occasionally small parties.
The American and English troops
are daily supplied with chickens and
eggs by the Chinese. The Chinese
avoid the Russian camps as Russians
are even now killing them in the most
brutal and cold-blooded manner, ire
spective of age or sex. There is
hardly man in the relief expedition
who has not story to tell of Russian
barbarism of which he has been an
eyewitness. 1t is impossible to go on
the river without seeing floating bod
les, not bodies of boxers killed in
action, but those of coolies killed for
no other purpose than to satiate the
blo0dthirstiness and cruelty of some
soldiers. Dogs and hogs along the
river bank are living off human flesh.
Along the roads and rivers horrible
sights are Witnessed, and the stencil
Of putrid flesh is fearful.
Paris, Oct. IA trustworthy dis
patch from Shanghai, says General
Liu, chief of the black flags, left Can
ton at the head of a considerable
force and will traverse the province
Of Hu Nan, cross the Yang Use at
Ouan, and then traversing the prov
ince OF Ho Nan will join the empress
at Sian Flu, the capital of Shen 81. for
the purpose of acting as her body
guard. It is believed the dowager
empress will arrive at Sian Flu about
October goth.
{ Washington, Oct 13-The Russian
suggestion that the international court
of arbitration of the Hague be give i
Jurisdiction over the Emergencies Of
views arising on the question of Chi
nese indemnities, received adherence
by the American, French and Russian
governments, thus giving a strong as
surance of its general adoption.
Berlin, Oct. 13.-A dispatch from
Tien Tsin dated October 18th, says:
At conference of diplomats at Pekin
October Sth, the German note IF Oc-
tober 1st, was discussed. In regard
to the first point whether the list OF
ring-leaders contained in the Chinese
edict was complete, the conference
declared the name of the chief cul-
prits, Tung Fuh Sian and Yu Hsin,
were omitted. In point two it was de-
cided the punishment was inadequate.
On point three it was concluded the
penalties must be carried into effect
by the delegates of the legations. i,7
Washington Oct. 13.-The Japanese
legation is in receipt of dispatch
from the foreign office at Toxic, con-
tanning the report from the japanese
consul at Tien Tsin. to the effect that
the allied forces of Great Britain,
France, Germany, and Italy would on
the 18th, inst, march upon Pao Ting
in three columns. the right under the
British commandersthe center under
the German, and the left under The
French; and the Japanese commander
would take charge Of the defense Of
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