Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-07-20
The War in China.

One of the most horrible events oil
the Chinese war has been the neces.
sity imposed upon our own forces to
kill their wounded men to keep them
from falling into the hands of the in
human Chinese mob. The bodies oil
two marines who were captured by the
enemy were recovered. They had
been cut to pieces, the eyes hacked
out, then the cheeks cut off, arms and
legs dismembered, until death ended
the suflerings of the poor fellows.
When Admiral Seymour, in his re.
treat, found that his wounded would
inevitably fall into possession of the
savage horde, he asked, with tears
streaming from his eyes: "What dc
you prefer, boys, to be left to the mer'
cies of the Chinese, or be shot by your
own comrades?" The immediate an.
swer came: 1--WE prefer death to tor.
ture. Shoot us now, that we may die
like men," A firing squad was tolled
off, and while their comrades beat back
with gun-fire the savage enemy, inside
the line an act OF mercy was performed
as the squad carried out its orders.
Five Chinese regiments have been
ordered from Pekin to Ching Han Pc
on the Grand Canal, the objective
point OF the southern extension Of the
Boxer movement. Shanghai and Che
Foo are threatened, and an attack on
New Chwang is imminent.
Admiral Remey confirms the news
of the repulse of the allies Mt Tien
Tsin and the killing of Colonel Lis.
cum and other Americans. At Cab.
met meeting held in Washington il
was decided to forward more troops.
Both official news and that of the
press agencies point strongly to q
realization of the worst at the Chinese
capital. There is the usual confusion
OF dates, which makes the reports un.
satisfactory, but substantial unanimity
as to the main fact, that all foreigners
in Pekin, including Ministers, suffered
horrible death in the second week oil
July.
There has been brisk fighting about
Tien Tsin, the foreigners generally
carrying their points, but suffering ma.
terial losses.
Fifteen hundred United States
troops have gone to the front.
The Washington Government will
take every precaution against violence
to Chinese in the United States, which
is intimated in some sections, in order
that the force of our demand for salts.
faction from China shall not be weak.
ened by counter-claims.
A letter from Lady Claude Mac
Donald, vile of the British Ambassa.
dor at Pekin, written when the situa-
ton was growing daily more alarming,
gave the information that all the la.
dies OF the legation had supplied them.
selves with poison, to be used in case
OF capture to escape indignity and
torture.
A Paris dispatch of Wednesday
says that the foreign ministers and
their families at Pekin are safe, but
that the danger is very great.
It is reported in London that the
Chinese propose an invasion of Siberia,
and this would constitute an open
declaration of war against Russia.
The Russian government has given
the Chinese minister at St. Peters.
burg his passports and told him to 90.
The Japanese have landed $4,000
soldiers on Chinese soil.
This government is making prepare
lions to send 5000 men to China.
Work on the transports Hancock and
Meade is being rushed and they will
be ready to leave the latter part oil
this month. Six companies OF colored
troops have been ordered from Arizona.
China has fifteen first-class cruisers
OF the very latest type OF construction.
It's army OF a million men is supplied
with Mauser rifles, smokeless powder
and quick-firing ordnance, in the use OF
which they have been trained by Dan.
ish and German officers.
It is reported that the allied powers
are looking for an opportunity of cap.
turing Ii Hung Chang and holding
him as hostage for Chinese good be.
haviOr. They seem to think that the
sly old rat has more to do with the
trouble than appears on the surface.
It is the mission of London Punch
to be funny, even amidst grave disas.
ter, and he publishes q cartoon repre-
senting the allied nations huddled to.
gether while a colossal dragon appears
scaling hilltop. They appeal to lit.
tie Japan for help and he replies:
Delighted to join you. but permit me
to remark that if some Of you hadn't
interfered when I had him down, il
would have saved all this trouble"
THERE IS No REWARD FOR PARTY
TREAcHERY.-A dispatch dated Bug.
zard Bay, on the 7th inst, states that
Grover Cleveland is much disappoint.
ed in the Kansas CITY platform. He